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Autore |
Heftrich Urs |
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Titolo |
Gogol's Crime and Punishment : An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls / / Urs Heftrich ; translated by Joseph Swann |
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Brookline, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature |
Literary criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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