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Goncharov in the
Twenty-First Century brings Ivan Goncharov¿s work into a
twenty-first-century critical framework, engaging with approaches
from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and
the novel, desire, laughter, technology, philosophy, and mobility and
travel.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Contributors
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts
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
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Ingrid Kleespies is Associate Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. She is the author of A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature (2012) and of articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, with a special focus on Russian Romanticism, travel literature, and symbolic spaces.
Lyudmila Parts is Professor of Russian at McGill University (Montreal). She is the author of In Search of the True Russia. The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse (2018); The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (2008); and the editor of The Russian 20th Century Short Story: A Critical Companion (2009). She has published articles on Karamzin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, contemporary authors, symbolic geography, and Russian travelogue.
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Goncharov in theTwenty-First Century brings Ivan Goncharov’s work into atwenty-first-century critical framework, engaging with approachesfrom post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre andthe novel, desire, laughter, technology, philosophy, and mobility andtravel.
