Author: PROFFER, CARL R
Title: THE SIMILE AND GOGOL'S DEAD SOULS.
Description: The Hague - Paris, Mouton, 1967. 1st edition. Blue cloth with dustjacket, 24,5cmx16,5cm, Good copy. 'Slavic printings and reprintings' LXII- edited by C. H. van Schooneveld. Contents: 1). Introduction: Gogol's critics and his style. 2). The simile: problems, types, and frequency. 3). Concrete imagery and Gogol's sense of sight. 4). Subject matter and value judgments. 5). Similes used by the characters. 6). The Homeric smile in 'Dead souls'. 7). Sobakevic. 8). Pljuskin. 9). Cicikov. 10). Variant texts. 11). Part two of 'Dead souls'. 12). The simile and other Homeric elements: 'Taras Bul'ba' and the 'Iliad'. 13). Gogol's defense of 'Dead souls. With note on the quotations, bibliography and index. 206 + (2) pag.

Keywords: dode zielen pljuskun bul'ba belinskii homer lermontov puskin turgenev vinogradov


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