02618nam 2200589 450 991079579860332120230624191443.01-64469-763-710.1515/9781644697634(MiAaPQ)EBC6857723(Au-PeEL)EBL6857723(CKB)20822680600041(OCoLC)1286072956(DE-B1597)618223(DE-B1597)9781644697634(EXLCZ)992082268060004120230624d2022 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGogol's Crime and Punishment An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls /Urs Heftrich ; translated by Joseph SwannFirst edition.Brookline, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (294 pages)Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History SeriesPrint version: Heftrich, Urs Gogol's Crime and Punishment Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,c2022 9781644697627 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.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.Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative LiteraturebisacshLiterary criticism.lcgftAllegory.Banality of evil.Dead Souls.Epic.Ethics.Nikolai Gogol.Russian literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.891.733Heftrich Urs1563783Swann JosephMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795798603321Gogol's Crime and Punishment3832438UNINA