Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word

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Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 A Key to Titles of Gogol’s Works Mentioned in the Articles......Page 12 1. The Face of Recent Gogol Scholarship......Page 16 2. The Logos of Gogol......Page 20 Andrei Bitov. Being Buried Alive; or, Gogol in 1973......Page 29 Sergei Bocharov. Around “The Nose”......Page 34 John Kopper. The “Thing-in-Itself” in Gogol’s Aesthetics: A Reading of the Dikanka Stories......Page 55 Priscilla Meyer. False Pretenders and the Spiritual City: “A May Night” and “The Overcoat”......Page 78 Iurii Mann: Gogol’s Poetics of Petrification......Page 90 Duffield White: Khlestakov as Representative of Petersburg in The Inspector General......Page 104 Robert Louis Jackson. Gogol’s “The Portrait”: The Simultaneity of Madness, Naturalism, and the Supernatural......Page 120 Susanne Fusso. The Landscape of Arabesques......Page 127 Mikhail Weiskopf. The Bird Troika and the Chariot of the Soul: Plato and Gogol......Page 141 Katherine Lahti. Artificiality and Nature in Gogol’s Dead Souls......Page 158 Frederick T. Griffiths, Stanley J. Rabinowitz. The Death of Gogolian Polyphony: Selected Comments on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends......Page 173 Alexander Zholkovsky. Rereading Gogol’s Miswritten Book: Notes on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends......Page 187 Cathy Popkin. Distended Discourse: Gogol, Jean Paul, and the Poetics of Elaboration......Page 200 Gary Saul Morson. Gogol’s Parables of Explanation: Nonsense and Prosaics......Page 215 Notes on the Contributors......Page 255 Notes......Page 258 Index......Page 300