The polemical force of Chekhov's comedies : a rhetorical analysis /
Reid, John McKellor.
Lewiston, N.Y. ; Lampeter : Edwin Mellen Press,
c2007.
"This work is a revisionist study of Anton Chekhov's drama which points out, for the first time, the rhetorical and polemical elements that have remained unnoticed or unmentioned in previous studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.
Ivanov : the perils of typicality -- Matter and spirit in The seagull -- Ga-ga-ga gander music : polemical cackling in Uncle Vanya -- Three sisters : Black Vesper's Opera naturalistica -- Polemic as parting advice : the argument of The cherry orchard.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904