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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Brookline, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2022] |
©2022 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 pages) |
Disciplina: | 891.733 |
Soggetto topico: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Literary criticism |
Soggetto non controllato: | Allegory |
Banality of evil | |
Dead Souls | |
Epic | |
Ethics | |
Nikolai Gogol | |
Russian literature | |
Persona (resp. second.): | SwannJoseph |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Gogol's Crime and Punishment |
ISBN: | 1-64469-763-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823845803321 |
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