Goncharov in the twenty-first century

Academic Studies Press

2021

264 p.

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures, and history

Includes bibliographical references and index

9781644697009

Part one. The life of service. Writer and chinovnik: the case of I. A. Goncharov / Sergei Gus'kov ; Writer or censor: I. A. Goncharov's service in the departments of censorship, and the evolution of professional ethics for censors and writers in Russia, in the 1850s and 1860s / Kirill Zubkov -- Part two. The challenges of philosophy. "Oblomovskii Platon": platonic subtexts in Oblomov / Vladimir Ivantsov ; Hegel's philosophy of history as the unifying thread of Goncharov's Trilogy / Victoria Juharyan ; Longing, replacement, and anti-economy in Goncharov's Oblomov / Sonja Koroliov -- Part three. The challenges of realism: traditions and transgressions. "Shadows, dead people, and specters": gothic aesthetics in Ivan Goncharov's The Precipice / Valeria Sobol ; The queer nihilist -- queer time, social refusal, and heteronormativity in Goncharov's The Precipice / Ani Kokobobo and Devin McFadden -- Part four. Author and imperialist abroad: Frigate Pallada. "I avoided the factual side...": fiction and document in Frigate Pallada / Aleksei Balakin ; A Russian observer catches the London Eye: envisioning imperial modernity in Goncharov's Frigate Pallada / Ingrid Kleespies ; Who are you laughing at?: Identity, laughter, and colonial discourse in Goncharov's Frigate Pallada / Lyudmila Parts.

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov’s service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in his work, the diverse philosophical threads that shape his novels, and the often colliding contexts of writer and imperial bureaucrat in the 1858 travel text Frigate Pallada. Chapters engage with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, and mobility and travel.

Russian prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

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