Chapter Five Gogol’s Texts as Palimpsest: Taras Bulba and Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 121-149
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2009 ◽  
Vol 361 (22) ◽  
pp. e109 ◽  
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Michael L. Langberg ◽  
Jeanne T. Black
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2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1271-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX DANCHEV
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10.34690/09 ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 176-185
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Н.А. Карпун
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Статья посвящена теме праведничества в творчестве Н. С. Лескова и Р. К. Щедрина - идее, раскрывающей глубинные параллели в мировосприятии двух художников. На протяжении всего творческого пути оба автора неоднократно обращались к образу праведника, без которого «несть граду стояния». В статье рассматриваются ключевые эстетические и стилистические особенности воплощения данного образа и сферы божественного в музыкальнотеатральных сочинениях Щедрина (операх «Не только любовь», «Мертвые души», «Очарованный странник», «Боярыня Морозова»). Опера «Левша» представляется кульминационным этапом в репрезентации подобного семантического ряда. Анализ драматургии произведения, музыкальных характеристик главного героя и персонажей «надземного» мира, прочная связь таковых с русской традицией (народной, церковной, музыкально-профессиональной) наводят на размышления о концепции праведничества как неотъемлемой части русского самосознания. The article is devoted to a theme of righteousness in works by N.Leskov and R.Shchedrin. This idea disco vers deep parallels between mentalities of both authors. Aesthetic and stylistic features of the characteristic of the righteous figure and divine sphere are considered as a part of Shchedrins opera style (for example, in operas Not Love Alone, Dead Souls, The Enchated Wanderer, Boyarina Morozova). Opera Left-hander are represented a culmination in develop of the theme of righteousness in Shchedrins works. Dramaturgy analysis and analysis of music characteristic of the main protagonist and above-earth world (which strong connect with Russian traditionsfolk, religion, music-professional) are thought-provoking about righteousness concept as essential part of Russian self-consciousness.


2021 ◽  
pp. 262-273
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A. E. Smirnov

Smirnov’s essay is devoted to an episode from Gogol’s Dead Souls [Myortvye dushi]; rather a landscape than an episode. In Gogol’s opinion, a landscape is not a copy of nature but an artist’s creation. A landscape is meant to be created, not copied from nature: the role of a master craftsman is not to usher the viewer along the trimmed bosquets of a French formal garden, unsurprising and immediately recognisable, but to lure them into the thicket of his imagination. It is with such a fruit of imagination that we are faced in the case of the neglected, unruly and overgrown garden on the landowner Plyushkin’s estate. The author examines Gogol’s description of the garden in detail, almost word by word, uncovering the hidden symbolic meaning of contrasting the village, ugly in its state of neglect, with the landowner’s garden, equally neglected but beautiful nonetheless. What is piles of rubbish in the village streets becomes pretty fallen leaves on the garden paths; the author suggests that Gogol used this contrast to let nature ‘correct’ the gardener, i. e. to remove the incompetent human alterations and reveal itself in its full glory.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Pollacchi

This chapter approaches history as a central concern in Wang Bing’s filmmaking. It deals with spaces of history and memory, in particular in relation to the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–59. It highlights Wang’s interest in unveiling the gaps and the contradictions imbued in state narratives at different epochs. A close reading of Wang’s only full-length feature film so far The Ditch (2010) and a comparative reading of it with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò (1975) are given in the first section of the chapter. The second section focuses on Wang’s mature work Dead Souls (2018) as a visual archive of witnesses on the campaign and as a way to testify to historical injustice, also recalling Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985).


2021 ◽  
pp. 42-52
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Henry Gifford
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2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
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Veronica Csillag
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1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 351
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Zenon M. Feszczak ◽  
Nikolai Gogol ◽  
Bernard Guilbert Guerney ◽  
Susanne Fusso ◽  
Richard Pevear ◽  
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