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With the works of the Russian author Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) the period of Russian imitation of Western literature ended. He found inspiration in native materials and combined realistic detail with ...
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Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol is the father of Russia's Golden Age of prose realism. Later nineteenth-century Russian authors wrote in the shadow of Gogol's thematics and sweeping aesthetic vision; twenti...
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Critical Essay by Boris Eichenbaum
"The Structure of Gogol's The Overcoat,'" translated by Beth Paul and Muriel Nesbitt in Russian Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, October, 1963, pp...
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Critical Essay by R. A. Peace
"Gogol: The Greatcoat," in The Voice of a Giant: Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics, edited by Roger Cockrell and David Richards, University of Exeter, ...
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Critical Essay by Victor Peppard
"Who Stole Whose Overcoat and Whose Text Is It?" in South Atlantic Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, January, 1990, pp. 63-80.
In the following essay, Peppard comp...
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Critical Essay by Victor Brombert
"Meaning and Indeterminacy in Gogol's The Overcoat'," in Literary Generations: A Festschrift in Honor of Edward D. Sullivan, edited by Ala...
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Critical Essay by Dmitri Chizhevsky
"On Gogol's The Overcoat,'" translated by Priscilla Meyer and Steven Rudy, in Dostoevsky & Gogol: Texts and Criticism, edited by ...
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Critical Essay by Vladimir Nabokov
"The Apotheosis of a Mask," in Nikolai Gogol, New Directions, 1944, 139-50.
A Russian-born American man of letters perhaps best known for the novels Lo...
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Critical Essay by John Schillinger
"Gogol's 'The Overcoat' as a Travesty of Hagiography," in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 1972, pp. 36-4...
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Elizabeth C. Shepard
"Pavlov's 'Demon' and Gogol's Overcoat'," in Slavic Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, June, 1974, pp. 288-301.
Below, Shepard postulates tha...
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Critical Essay by Simon Karlinsky
The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 p.
In this thematic study the critic argues that Gogol's story is a romantic tale wi...
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Critical Essay by Edward Proffitt
"Gogol's 'Perfectly True' Tale: The Overcoat' and Its Mode of Closure," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter,...
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Critical Essay by Donald Fanger
"Epic Intentions," in The Creation of Nikolai Gogol, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 145-63.
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Critical Essay by L. Michael O'Toole
"Narrative Structure," in Structure, Style and Interpretation in the Russian Short Story, Yale University Press, 1982, pp. 20-36.
In this exce...
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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol
Critical Essay by Boris Eichenbaum
