Gogol's Crime and Punishment: An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls
Author:   Urs Heftrich ,  Joseph Swann
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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Pages:   294
Publication Date:   10 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Soulsthat even inspired a staging of Dead Soulsat Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel's meaning by meticulously laying bare its structure. The first part of the monograph is dedicated to one section of Gogol's novel that has been neglected by virtually all critics - a clue that leads to a strictly ethical reading of Gogol's epic. Gogol, as it emerges, constructed Dead Soulsstrictly according to a moral pattern. It is amazing to discover how flawlessly Dead Soulsis built in this regard. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.

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Author:   Urs Heftrich ,  Joseph Swann
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
ISBN:  

9781644697627


ISBN 10:   1644697629
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   10 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword 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 Illustrations Bibliography Index

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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.

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