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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823845803321

Autore

Heftrich Urs

Titolo

Gogol's Crime and Punishment : An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls / / Urs Heftrich ; translated by Joseph Swann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brookline, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-64469-763-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 pages)

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History Series

Disciplina

891.733

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature

Literary criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and Evil -- Part One: Chichikov's Prehistory -- Ethos and Epic -- The Ground Plan of Dead Souls -- The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited -- Part Two: Chichikov's Crime -- On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense -- The Five Faces of Lying -- In the Shadow Realm of Lies -- Part Three: Chichikov's Punishment -- Judgment and Rumor -- The Five Acts of the Drama -- Ethos and Epic: Chichikov's Crime and Punishment.

Sommario/riassunto

A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according to a moral pattern. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.