Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word
ISBN: 9780810165946
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Northwestern University Press
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Subjects: Gogol’ Nikolaĭ Vasil’evich 1809–1852 -- Criticism and Interpretation -- Congresses;

These fourteen essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary character of Russian literature research in general and of the study of Gogol in particular, focusing on specific works, Gogol's own character, and the various approaches to aesthetic, religious, and philosophical issues raised by his writing.

SUSANNE FUSSO is a professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol (Stanford, 1993). She is the translator and editor of A Russian Prince in the Soviet State: Hunting Stories, Letters from Exile, and Military Memoirs (2005) and coeditor of Essays on Karolina Pavlova (2001) and Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word (1994), all published by Northwestern University Press.

PRISCILLA MEYER is Professor of Russian at Wesleyan University.


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