"The Nose" (eBook, ePUB)

A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story
Redaktion: Blank, Ksana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "The Nose." Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer's wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which often is lost in English translations. It traces Gogol's descriptions of everyday life in St. Petersburg, familiar to the writer's contemporaries and fellow citizens but hidden from the modern Western reader. Part II presents an overview of major critical interpretations of the story in Gogol scholarship from the time of its publication to the present, as well as its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644695227
• Artikelnr.: 61247897

Autorenporträt

Ksana Blank is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Dostoevsky¿s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (Northwestern University, 2010) and Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts (Academic Studies Press, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents  Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction Part One. How
The Nose
Is Made
.
.
«
» Annotations to the Russian Text Language Game as the Engine of the Plot Part Two. Interpretations 1. Joke, Jest, Anecdote 2. Social Satire 3. Mockery of the Demonic and of the Sacred 4. Chronicle of Folk Superstitions 5. A Case of Castration Anxiety 6. An Echo of German Romanticism 7. Perfect Nonsense 8. Shostakovich
s Opera The Nose 9. A Play with Reality:
The Nose,
Kafka, and Dalí Instead of a Conclusion Selected Bibliography