Gogol's crime and punishment : an essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead souls /
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Brookline, MA :
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Truth and Madness
- 2. Gogol's Theory of Evil
- 3. Gogol's Therapeutic Model against Evil
- pt. One Chichikov's Prehistory
- ch. 1 Ethos and Epic
- 1. Author Reviews His Work
- 2. System of the Five Landowners
- ch. 2 Ground Plan of Dead Souk
- 1. Pliushkin
- a). Young Man and Old
- b). Windows of the Soul
- c). Journey into the World
- d). Years of Apprenticeship
- 2. Sobakevich
- a). Amor and Agon
- b). Degrees of Lying
- c). Asceticism and Gluttony
- d). Trickster Tricked
- 3. Nozdrev
- a). Plans of Mice and Men
- b). Gamblers' Duel
- c). Boundary Transgressions
- d). Of Sangfroid and Sweat
- 4. Korobochka
- a). Birth of the Business Idea out of the Dirt
- b). Backwoods Inventory
- c). Chichikov Undressed
- d). Poetic Misdemeanor
- 5. Manilov
- a). Apologia of Insignificance
- b). Theory of the Passions
- c). Parable of the Insouciant Landowner
- d). Kifa Mokievich and Mokii Kifovich
- ch. 3 Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited
- pt. Two Chichikov's Crime
- ch. 4 On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense
- 1. Schiller's Distinction between False and Aesthetical Appearances
- 2. Homeric Liar-Hero
- 3. Platonic-Christian Truth-Ethos
- 4. Gogol between Homer, Schiller, and Christianity
- ch. 5 Five Faces of Lying
- 1. Manilov
- a). Manilovka, or the Realm of Euphemism
- b). First Face of the Lie---Rhetoric
- c). Janitor of Hades
- d). Manilov and Chichikov
- 2. Korobochka
- a). From Manilovka to Zamanilovka
- b). Mistress of Hades
- c). Second Face of the Lie---Magic
- d). Korobochka and Chichikov
- 3. Nozdrev
- a). From Zamanilovka to Nozdrev
- b). Spirit that Denies
- c). Third Face of the Lie---Nihilism
- d). Nozdrev and Chichikov
- 4. Sobakevich
- a). Sobakevich and Chichikov
- b). Fourth Face of the Lie---Cynicism
- c). From Nozdrev to Sobakevich
- d). Deathless Koshchei
- 5. Pliushkin
- a). From Sobakevich to Pliushkin
- b). Forgotten Face of Truth---the Divine Logos
- c). Christian Sinner
- d). Pliushkin and Chichikov
- ch. 6 In the Shadow Realm of Lies
- pt. Three Chichikov's Punishment
- ch. 7 Judgment and Rumor
- 1. Victory of the Lie before the Worldly Court
- a). Worldly and Heavenly Courts
- b). Chichikov before the Worldly Court
- c). Lying Rules
- d). From Master to Slave of the Imagination
- 2. Crowning of the Lie and the Banishing of Truth
- a). Drama, Fama, Rumor
- b). Scandal and Feast
- c). Crowning of the Lie
- d). Banishing of Truth
- 3. Traducing of the Lie by Rumor
- a). Judgment of Rumor
- b). Fama---Masculine and Feminine
- c). Hermeneutics of Rumor
- d). Fama as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- 4. Defense of the Lie by the Lie as Art
- a). Twelfth Chapter of Dead Souls
- b). "Neither Hand nor Foot": Captain Kopeikin
- c). Poet's "Monkey"
- d). To the Devil with Truth!
- 5. Banishing of the Lie by the Lie Autonomous
- a). Knot Untied
- b). Chichikov's First Corpse: The Public Prosecutor
- c). Beyond the Competence of the Worldly Court
- d). Closing Circles
- ch. 8 Five Acts of the Drama
- ch. 9 Ethos and Epic: Chichikov's Crime and Punishment
- List of Sources for Illustrations
- Bibliography
- A. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
- B. Evil
- C. Lying and Rumor
- D. Feasting and Scandal
- E. General Literature.