Essays on Anton P. Chekhov : : Close Readings /

Essays on Anton P. Chekhov : : Close Readings / / Robert Louis Jackson; ed. by Cathy Popkin.

This long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time. The volume offers a series of “slow” re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
VerfasserIn:
Jackson, Robert Louis,
MitwirkendeR:
Feuer Miller, Robin,
Miller, Robin Feuer,
Popkin, Cathy,
HerausgeberIn:
Popkin, Cathy,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Ars Rossica
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Еditor’s Note
  • Introduction
  • On Chekhov’s Art
  • Chekhov’s Seagull: The Empty Well, the Dry Lake, and the Cold Cave
  • “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: An Essay on Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”
  • Dostoevsky in Chekhov’s Garden of Eden: “Because of Little Apples”
  • “The Betrothed”: Chekhov’s Last Testament
  • Chekhov and Proust: A Posing of the Problem
  • “The Steppe”: Space and the Journey. A Metaphor for All Times
  • “The Enemies”: A Story at War with Itself?
  • Chekhov’s “The Student”
  • The Ethics of Vision: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in The Island of Sakhalin
  • Dantesque and Dostoevskian Elements in Chekhov’s “In Exile”
  • Biblical and Literary Allusions in Chekhov’s “Gusev”
  • Russian Man at the Rendezvous: The Narrator of Chekhov’s “A Little Joke”
  • “Small Fry”: A Nice Little Easter Story
  • Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”: “By the Rivers of Babylon” in Eastern Orthodox Liturgy
  • Three Deaths: A Boy, A Goose, and an Infant
  • A Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov’s Letters to Suvorin
  • “Grief”: Once Again about the Ending of the Story
  • Dogs: Text and Subtext in “Lady with a Pet Dog”
  • Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and Gurov’s Oreanda Meditations in Chekhov’s “Lady with a Pet Dog”
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: Robert Louis Jackson on “Po delam sluzhby”
  • Index

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