Selected Essays on Russian Literature

Matthew Raphael Johnson

Pushkin's "The Undertaker" Gogol's "The Inspector General" Civilization and Anti-Civilization in Gogol's "St. John's Eve." Gogol's "Diary of a Madman:" Bureaucracy, Rationality and Reality The Slavophiles and the 19th Century Turgenev's Home for the Nobility: A Conversion to Slavophilism? Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground Dostoyevsky's Uncle's Dream and Post-Crimean Russia Old Russia and the Occult in Dostoyevsky's "Ivan's Nightmare" Some Thoughts on Dostoyevsky's "Dream of a Strange Man" Dostoyevsky's An Unpleasant Predicament: Ideology, Bureaucracy and Bi-Polarity The Bourgeois Sickness: Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" Schism and Conscience: Solzhenitsyn’s "First Circle" and "Cancer Ward" The Social Vision of Valentin Rasputin

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