02822nam 22004455 450 991015472450332120230823004235.00-8047-6532-410.1515/9780804765329(CKB)3710000000971676(MiAaPQ)EBC5419436(DE-B1597)564847(DE-B1597)9780804765329(OCoLC)1178770267(EXLCZ)99371000000097167620200723h20201994 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierExploring Gogol /Robert A. MaguireStanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]©19941 online resource (xxii, 409)Studies of the Harriman Institute0-8047-2320-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-390) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Three Notes to the Reader -- Major Events in Gogol's Life -- Works by Gogol Cited in the Text and Notes -- 1. Bounded Space -- 2. Displacement: "Old-World Landowners -- 3. Equilibrium as Place: "The Two Ivans" -- 4. Place Within: "Diary of a Madman -- 5. Place as Nature -- 6. Some Sources of Place -- 7. The Art of Seeing -- 8. Rome -- 9. Imitation: "The Portrait" -- 10. An Anxious Eye -- 11. From Eye to Word -- 12. The Word in Dead Souls -- 13. The Retrieval of the Past -- 14. Word Wielders -- 15. The Search for a Language of Self -- 16. The Failure of the Word -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to date, the rhetorical strategies and thematic patterns that create the unity. These larger concerns emerge from a close study of the major texts, fictional and nonfictional, and in turn are set in a broad artistic and intellectual context, Russian and European, with special attention to German philosophy, the visual arts, and Orthodox Christian theology.LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet UnionbisacshLITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.891.7/3/3Maguire Robert A., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut458699DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154724503321Exploring Gogol174041UNINA