Russian Devils and Diabolic Conditionality in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Russian Devils and Diabolic Conditionality in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Author: Christopher Putney

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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In addition to examining the aesthetics of the Russian writer's first novel, Putney (Slavic languages and literature, U. of North Carolina- Chapel Hill) explores the traditions of speculation into the devil found in Orthodox theology, medieval Russian literature, and East Slavic folklore. He also considers the evolution of Gogol's demonic idiom and its relationship to those received traditions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


A Devil's Vaudeville

A Devil's Vaudeville

Author: William J. Leatherbarrow

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2005-05-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0810120496

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A study of the 'demonic markers' that run throughout Dostoevsky's fiction, this also explores the narrative and generic implications of the way Dostoevsky inscribed the demonic in his fictional works - implications that point to a new understanding of familiar concepts in the work of this Russian master.


"Dew on the Grass"

Author: Radislav Lapushin

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781433108761

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"'Dew on the Grass : The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov' is the first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic dimensions of Anton Chekhov's prose and drama. Using the concept on "inbetweenness," this book reconceptualizes the central aspects of Chekhov's style, from his use of language to the origins of his artistic worldview. Radislav Lapushin offers a fresh interpretive framework for the analysis of Chekhov's individual works and his oeuvre as a whole." -- Book cover.


Dostoevsky's Secrets

Dostoevsky's Secrets

Author: Carol Apollonio Flath

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2009-01-14

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0810125323

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When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky’s work, reading through the facts--the text--of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose. This sort of reading against the grain is, Apollonio suggests, precisely what these works, with their emphasis on the hidden and the private and their narrative reliance on secrecy and slander, demand. In each work Apollonio focuses on one character or theme caught in the compromising, self-serving, or distorting narrative lens. Who, she asks, really exploits whom in Poor Folk? Does "White Nights" ever escape the dream state? What is actually lost--and what is won--in The Gambler? Is Svidrigailov, of such ill repute in Crime and Punishment, in fact an exemplar of generosity and truth? Who, in Demons, is truly demonic? Here we see how Dostoevsky has crafted his novels to help us see these distorting filters and develop the critical skills to resist their anaesthetic effect. Apollonio's readings show how Dostoevsky's paradoxes counter and usurp our comfortable assumptions about the way the world is and offer access to a deeper, immanent essence. His works gain power when we read beyond the primitive logic of external appearances and recognize the deeper life of the text.


The Imperative of Reliability

The Imperative of Reliability

Author: Victoria Somoff

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2015-02-28

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0810130572

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The Imperative of Reliability examines the development of nineteenth-century Russian prose and the remarkably swift emergence of the Russian novel. Victoria Somoff identifies an unprecedented situation in the production and perception of the utterance that came to define nascent novelistic fictionality both in European and Russian prose, where the utterance itself—whether an oral story or a “found” manuscript—became the object of representation within the compositional format of the frame narrative. This circumstance generated a narrative perspective from which both the events and their representation appeared as concomitant in time and space: the events did not precede their narration but rather occurred and developed along with and within the narration itself. Somoff establishes this story-discourse convergence as a major factor in enabling the transition from shorter forms of Russian prose to the full-fledged realist novel.


The Intimate Stranger

The Intimate Stranger

Author: Julian W. Connolly

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world. Asking fundamental questions - where does evil come from? when does it appear in characters' lives? - these writers created a remarkable array of demonic figures, ranging from grotesque demons to handsome nihilists. This book discusses the various literary, religious, and folkloric factors that influenced the representation of the demonic, and it investigates the profound, soul-shattering effects that a personal encounter with the demonic may have on an individual's life.


The Volokolamsk Paterikon

The Volokolamsk Paterikon

Author: T. Allan Smith

Publisher: Studies and Texts

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Includes the text of the Volokolamsk Paterikon by Dosifej Toporkov and other texts from GIM Sinodalnoe sobr. no. 927.