Nikolai Gogol - Performing Hybrid Identity

This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a deliberate hybrid identity to mimic and mock the pretensions of the dominant culture.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Negotiation of Ukrainian Identities in the Russian Empire
2. Gogol’s Self-Fashioning and Performance of Identity in the 1830s
3. Hybrid Language and Narrative Performance in Evenings on a Farm Near Dikan¿ka 
4. Heteroglossia, Speech Masks, and the Synthesis of Languages
5. Gogol’s Texts as Palimpsest: Taras Bulba and Dead Souls 
6.  The Posthumous Publications and Translations of Gogol’s Texts   
Afterword
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Yuliya Ilchuk

Summary

This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a deliberate hybrid identity to mimic and mock the pretensions of the dominant culture.

Product details

• Authors: Yuliya Ilchuk
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781487508258
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0825-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous