Heftrich Gogol’s Crime and Punishment

An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64469-764-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History

A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according to a moral pattern. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heftrich, Urs

Weitere Mitwirkende

Swann, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
ForewordIntroduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and EvilPart 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
IllustrationsBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Heftrich Urs:

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.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.