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| Name: |
Nikolai Gogol | | Birth Date: |
March 20, 1809 | | Death Date: |
February 21, 1852 | | Place of Birth: |
Sorochincy, Ukraine | | Nationality: |
Russian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
author, dramatist, novelist |
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 Biography of Nikolai Gogol
1410 words, approx. 4.7 pages
 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 grotesque and otherworldly elements. Nikolai Gogol was... summary from source:
 Biography of Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol
17784 words, approx. 59.3 pages
 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; twentieth-century modernists acknowledge Gogol as an inspira...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Overcoat Information
1,794 words, approx. 6 pages
"The Overcoat" (Russian: Шинель, Shinel; sometimes translated as "The Cloak") is the title of a short story by Russian author of Ukrainian descent Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian...
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 The Washington Post The Overcoat, Over Time
02/13/1987: 1,092 words, approx. 4 pages WHAT DO fashion-conscious Parisians, pennywise college students and Washington street people wear in common? The antique overcoat. Once, long before the advent of designer jeans, the antique overcoat was known as the used overcoat, or simply a hand-me-down. Used clothes were purchased... summary from source:
Variety The Overcoat.(Theater Review)
01/31/2005: 642 words, approx. 2 pages THE OVERCOAT (BELDING THEATER AT THE BUSHNELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS; 900 SEATS; $60 TOP) HARTFORD, Conn. A Canadian Stage Company, Glynis Henderson Prods. and Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts presentation of a play in two acts, created and directed... summary from source:
 AP Features Truman Library turns 50 this year
7/30/2007: 356 words, approx. 1 pagesThe Truman Library turns 50 years old and as part of its golden anniversary celebration, it's hosting a "Treasures of the Presidents" exhibit, including over 200 artifacts on loan from other presidential libraries around the country.The exhibit, on view through Jan. 4, includes Bill Clinton's...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Dmitri Chizhevsky
9,474 words, approx. 32 pages
"On Gogol's The Overcoat,'" translated by Priscilla Meyer and Steven Rudy, in Dostoevsky & Gogol: Texts and Criticism, edited by Priscilla Meyer and Steven Rudy, Ardis, 1979, pp. 137-60. The excerpt below was originally published in Russian in 1938 in the journal Sovremennye zapiski. Here, Chizhevsky looks at the frequent use of the word dazhe, "even," and argues that this textual detail helps establish the narrative style and tone of the story as well as pro... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Boris Eichenbaum
7,515 words, approx. 25 pages
"The Structure of Gogol's The Overcoat,'" translated by Beth Paul and Muriel Nesbitt in Russian Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, October, 1963, pp. 377-99. In this essay, which was first published in Russian in 1919, Eichenbaum examines the narrative devices of "The Overcoat" and discusses their relationship to the structure of the story. He argues that the comic and pathetic elements work together to create a grotesque style.
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Critical Essay by R. A. Peace
6,410 words, approx. 21 pages
"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, 1985, pp. 27-40. In this essay Peace examines the role of word play in "The Overcoat," which, he argues, elucidates Gogol's central device of having the external world act as a metaphor for the internal world of the main character.
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The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol | |
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