PROVINCIAL TOWN VERSUS CAPITAL CITY. A DIALOGUE WITH CHEKHOV (JOYCE CAROL OATES’ “THE LADY WITH THE PET DOG”)
Journal: RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Literary Theory Linguistics Cultural Studies Series
Year: 2025

Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “The lady with the pet dog” (1972) is a modern version of Chekhov’s masterpiece told from a woman’s point of view. The paper compares literary and geographic analogues of the two stories (the capital cities where the heroes live, – Moscow and New York, – the provincial towns where the heroines live, – the town of S. and an unnamed town in Ohio, – and the resort locations where their meeting takes place, Yalta and Nantucket Island), which leads to some findings abou