Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor Edited by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin - Contributions by Carol Apollonio; Rosamund Bartlett; Liya Bushkanets; Sharon M. Carnicke; Alexander Chudakov; John Douglas Clayton; Caryl Emerson; Svetlana Evdokimova; Michael Finke; Elizabeth Geballe; Iri Klappentext This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles-biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history-to characterize Chekhov's key epistolary concerns and to examine their role in his life. Zusammenfassung This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles—biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history—to characterize Chekhov’s key epistolary concerns and to examine their role in his life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Chekhov's Letters: An Integral Body of Work, Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin Part I: Publication History, Reception, and Textual Issues Chapter 1: Reader Reception of Chekhov's Letters at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Liya Bushkanets Chapter 2: Some Like It Hot: The Censored Letters, Vladimir Kataev Chapter 3: On Editing and Translating Chekhov's Letters, Rosamund Bartlett Chapter 4: Imaginary Chekhov? Yet Another Fabrication by Boris Sadovskoy, Igor Sukhikh Part II: Approaches to a Body of Work Chapter 5: Chekhov's "Postal Prose," Vladimir Lakshin Chapter 6: Letters Not about Chekhov: On How We Read Chekhov's Letters, Michael Finke Chapter 7: Chekhov's Letters: Slow Reading, Alevtina Kuzicheva Chapter 8: The Writer's Correspondence as a Narrative Genre: Aspects of Chekhov's Epistolary Prose, Irina Gitovich Part III: Genre Chapter 9: A Unity of Vision: Chekhov's Letters, Alexander Chudakov Chapter 10: "I Listen to My Irtysh Beating against Coffins": The Existential and Dreamlike in Chekhov's Letters, Radislav Lapushin Chapter 11: A Playwright's Letters, Emma Polotskaya Part IV: From Life to Art: Readings Chapter 12: Homo Sachaliensis: Chekhov as a Family Man, Galina Rylkova Chapter 13: Russian Binaries and the Question of Culture: Chekhov's True Intelligent, Svetlana Evdokimova Chapter 14: Burned Letters: Reconstructing the Chekhov-Levitan Friendship, Serge Gregory Chapter 15: Verbal Games and Animal Metaphors in Chekhov's Correspondence with Olga Knipper, John Douglas Clayton Chatper 16: The Withered Tree, Zinovy Paperny Chapter 17: Anton Chekhov and D. H. Lawrence: The Art of Letters and the Discourse of Mortality, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor Part V: My Favorite Chekhov Letter Chapter 18: Preface: Chekhov's Blotter, Dina Rubina Chapter 19: Chekhov's First Dissertation Proposal (to Alexander Chekhov, from Moscow, 17/18 April 1883), Michael Finke Chapter 20: Letters, Dreams and Their Environments (to Dmitry Grigorovich, from Moscow, 12 February 1887), Matthew Mangold Chapter 21: Chekhov's Letter to Lermontov (to Mikhail Chekhov, from the ship "Dir," 28 July 1888), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor Chapter 22: A Favorite Chekhov Letter: Mission Impossible (Letters from 1888-89), Robin Feuer Miller Chapter 23: Chekhov's "Holy of Holies": The Poetics of Corporeity (to Alexander Pleshcheev, from Moscow, 4 October 1888), Svetlana Evdokimova Chapter 24: Winged Things (to Alexei Suvorin, from Moscow, 17 October 1889), Elizabeth Geballe Chapter 25: A Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov's Letters to Suvorin (to Alexei Suvorin, 9 March 1890; 9 December 1890; 17 December 1890), Robert Louis Jackson Chapter 26: Why Not Stay Here, so Long as It's not Boring? (to family, from Siberia, 23-2...
