Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix A Key to Titles of GogoI's Works xi Introduction 1 1. The Face of Recent Gogol Scholarship 1 2. The Logos of Gogol 5 Works Cited in Introduction 8 Andrei Bitov Being Buried Alive; or, Gogol in 1973 14 Sergei Bocharov Around "The Nose" 19 John Kopper The "Thing-in-Itself" in GogoI's Aesthetics: A Reading of the Dikanka Stories 40 Priscilla Meyer False Pretenders and the Spiritual City: "A May Night" and "The Overcoat" 63 Iurii Mann GogoI's Poetics of Petrification 75 Duffield White Khlestakov as Representative of Petersburg in The Inspector General 89 Robert Louis Jackson GogoI's "The Portrait": The Simultaneity of Madness, Naturalism, and the Supernatural 105 Susanne Fusso The Landscape of Arabesques 112 vii Contents Mikhail Weiskopf The Bird Troika and the Chariot of the Soul: Plato and Gogol 126 Katherine Lahti Artificiality and Nature in GogoI's Dead Souls 143 Frederick T Griffiths and Stanley]. Rabinowitz The Death of Gogolian Polyphony: Selected Comments on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends 158 Alexander Zholkovsky Rereading GogoI's Miswritten Book: Notes on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends 172 Cathy Popkin Distended Discourse: Gogol, Jean Paul, and the Poetics of Elaboration 185 Gary Saul Morson Gogol's Parables of Explanation: Nonsense and Prosaics 200 Notes on the Contributors 240 Notes 243 Index 285 viii ...