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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Sonkowsky has taught English at the University of Pennsylvania. In the following essay, he examines the “multiplicity of meanings” in Gogol's “The Overcoat” and asserts that it "[sheds] light . . . on modern life as it...
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From: Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the U.S.A[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Firtich compares the Russian and British national varieties of nonsense literature, as represented by Gogol and Lear, respectively.] I. Biographical Parallels Recent studies...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Shinel'" ("The Overcoat") the story of a lowly clerk in a government office, marks an important stage in the development of 19th-century realism. Gogol wrote it in 1840 in Vienna, while undergoing a religious crisis....
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From: College English[(essay date December 1955) In the following essay, Weathers argues that Dead Souls belongs in the canon of great epics of Western literature, comparing Gogol to such writers as Dante, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and...
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From: Living Age[(essay date 30 October 1915) In the following essay, Birkhead compares Gogol's fictional characters with those of English novelist Charles Dickens.] The greater humorists have seldom been content to keep their...
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From:JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: In the framework of Soviet national cinema, the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS) has often been eclipsed by Moscow's montage achievements of the 1920s. As a national product, FEKS is more difficult to...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Nos" ("The Nose") is the second of Gogol's St. Petersburg stories—the others are "The Nevsky Prospect," "The Portrait," "The Overcoat," "The Carriage," and "Diary of a Madman"—a cycle in which he took as his model the...
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From: Essays in Russian Literature: The Conservative View: Leontiev, Rozanov, Shestov[(essay date 1894) In the following essay, originally published in 1894, Rozanov offers an idiosyncratic interpretation of Dead Souls, arguing that the work signified a drastic departure from the writings of Aleksandr...
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From: The Literary WorldGogol's story of Dead Souls ... may safely be classed as the author's masterpiece and as one of the enduring productions of modern literature.... Notwithstanding its lugubrious title, the book is by no means a ghastly...
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From: South Atlantic Review[In the following essay, Peppard compares “The Overcoat” to stories in the supernatural genre with which Gogol was most likely familiar, in order to determine whether the conclusion is intended by Gogol to be...
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From: Slavic and East European Journal[In this essay Schillinger asserts that “The Overcoat” is “a travesty of the saints' calendar account of St. Acacius of Sinai, and to some extent of hagiography itself.”] Does the name Akakij Akakievi in Gogol's “The...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Gogol's great dramatic achievement The Government Inspector was also his first full-length play, written when its author was a mere 27 years of age. Gogol's background had prepared him as well for a career as a dramatist...
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From: Literary Generations: A Festschrift in Honor of Edward D. Sullivan[Here, the Brombert examines several possible interpretations of “The Overcoat” and argues that Gogol purposely made the story difficult to interpret because he “delighted in verbal acts as a game ... that implied the...
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From: Language in India[(essay date November 2011) In the following essay, Shinde evaluates the film adaptation of Lahiri's novel The Namesake.] Novel is defined as a long narrative in prose and can be treated as a 'Word'. Film is also a...
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From: Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Connolly reads Vakhtin’s 1979 short story “The Sheepskin Coat” as a contemporary adaptation of Gogol’s “The Overcoat.” While Vakhtin borrows Gogol’s plot and style for the same...
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From: New Zealand Slavonic Journal[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Kelly examines the relationship between Dead Souls and Homer’s Odyssey, focusing on the symbol of the “homeward bound road.” Kelly maintains that changes in the function of...
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From: Literature and Theology[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Cornell argues that the Gospel of Matthew offers a distinct insight into the psychological basis of sins of the flesh—what he terms “scandal.” Describing “The Nose” as “a most...
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From: Atenea[(essay date June 2007) In the following essay, Caesar scrutinizes the significance of the numerous allusions to the writer Nikolai V. Gogol in The Namesake.] Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The...
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From: AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Franklin identifies and explains “dialectical parody,” a complex genre of serious parody that respects and elevates rather than mocks its subject, and she notes that it is often...
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From: Canadian-American Slavic Studies[(essay date fall-winter 1995) In the following essay, Kaspryk applies critic Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the isolated or objectified literary character to Poprishchin, concluding that Gogol humanized his character...