Urs Heftrich

Gogol's Crime and Punishment

An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781644697627
• ISBN-10: 1644697629
• Artikelnr.: 63246143

Autorenporträt

Urs Heftrich holds the Chair of Slavic Literatures at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of four monographs. As an editor and prize-winning translator of Czech and Russian poetry, he has been mediating Slavic Literatures in Germany since 1989.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and Evil Part One: Chichikov
s Prehistory 1.  Ethos and Epic 2.  The Ground Plan of Dead Souls 3.  The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited Part Two: Chichikov
s Crime 1.  On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense 2.  The Five Faces of Lying 3.  In the Shadow Realm of Lies Part Three: Chichikov
s Punishment 1.  Judgment and Rumor 2.  The Five Acts of the Drama 3.  Ethos and Epic: Chichikov
s Crime and Punishment Illustrations Bibliography Index