Gogol's ""Dead Souls""
Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery to critics as it was when it first appeared. James Woodward disputes the traditional view of Gogol's work, contending that it is not a sprawling mass of loosely connected episodes,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2015
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library
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| Summary: | Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery to critics as it was when it first appeared. James Woodward disputes the traditional view of Gogol's work, contending that it is not a sprawling mass of loosely connected episodes, details, and digressions. His close reading of the text offers a new interpretation by tracing the essential features of Gogol's creative method. Although Dead Souls is a subject of lively debate in almost every respect, no Western scholar has ever before made it the subject of book-length analysis. J |
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| Item Description: | 1 Sobakevich |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1400871905 9781400871902 |