Robert A. Maguire

Anna Swirszczyńska

Magnus J. Kryński

Jerzy Tomaszewski

Anna Swirszczyńska Swir

Alan Timberlake

Cracow, August-September 1998 : Literature, Linguistics, Poetics

American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists

Wisława Szymborska

Magnus J. Krynski

The Poetry of Wisława Szymborska

Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts

The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming.

Eleven Essays

Gogol From the Twentieth Century

American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists: Linguistics

The fiction and drama of Gogol, now widely read in English, have delighted, puzzled, and inspired Russian critics for nearly a century and a half. In this anthology, Robert A. Maguire offers to English-speaking readers a selection of the impressive critical achievement that the writings of Gogol have stimulated. Each of the eleven essays is at once a fresh contribution to the study of Gogol and an example of one major school of criticism cultivated in contemporary Russia.

Gogol from the Twentieth Century

For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to date, the rhetorical strategies and thematic patterns that create the unity. These larger concerns emerge from a close study of the major texts, fictional and nonfictional, and in turn are set in a broad artistic and intellectual context, Russian and European, with special attention to German philosophy, the visual arts, and Orthodox Christian theology.

Exploring Gogol

Robert A. Maguire

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