Chekhov the immigrant
Subtitle: translating a cultural icon
By: Michael C. Finke and Julie de Sherbinin, eds.
Contributors: Finke, Michael.; De Sherbinin, Julie W.
Publisher: Slavica
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 -- Translations into English -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 -- Appreciation -- United States -- Congresses; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 -- Knowledge -- Medicine -- Congresses; Medicine in literature -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Comprising the proceedings of a 1994 NEH-funded symposium held to mark the hundredth anniversary of Chekhov's death, Chekhov the Immigrant features articles on Chekhov's stories and plays by literary scholars, contemporary fiction writers, and theatrical producers, as well as forums on Chekhov and translation and Chekhov and the medical humanities"--Publisher's summary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Seeing Chekhov whole / Laurence Senelick; title: Translating Chekhov's plays : a collaboration between translator, director, and actors / Michael Henry Heim; title: Translating Chekhov's plays without Russian, or The nasty habit of adaptation : Chekhov and Anglo-American letters / Sharon Marie Carnicke; title: American iconography of Chekhov / Julie W. De Sherbinin; title: Writing in English with a Chekhov muse / Katherine Tiernan O'Connor; title: Hunters off the beaten path : the dismantling of pastoral myth in Chekhov and Crane / Andrew R. Durkin; title: The sound of distant thunder : Chekhov and Chekhovian Subtexts in Tom Stoppard's Coast of utopia / Anna Muza; title: My Chekhov / James McConkey; title: Chekhov and aspiring writers / Claire Messud; title: Learning from Chekhov / Francine Prose; title: Chekhov's simplicity / James Wood; title: Chekhov's "Rothschild's fiddle" : "by the rivers of Babylon in Eastern Orthodox liturgy / Robert Louis Jackson; title: Chekhov's anti-melodramatic imagination : inoculation against the diseases of contemporary theater / Svetlana Evdokimova; title: Doctor without patients/man without a spleen : A meditation on Chekhov's practice / Cathy Popkin; title: Incapacity / Spencer Golub; title: Finding the boy band in Chekhov's The seagull : Lightbox's gull / Ellen Beckerman; title: Must there be an orchard in the cherry orchard? : Understanding and staging Chekhov / Carol Rocamora; title: A conversation with Dr. Robert Coles : Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams / Conducted by Michael Finke; title: Heal thyself, hide thyself : Why did Chekhov ignore his TB? / Michael Finke; title: Chekhov's Sakhalin island as a medical geography / Conevery Bolton Valenius; title: A few words on Chekhov and the medical humanities / Richard Kahn, M.D; title: About Chekhov (an excerpt) / N. Altshuller (trans. Eugene Alper); title: Seminar on Anton Chekhov and the medical humanities : A discussion of selected Chekhov stories / Moderated by Michael Finke and Richard Kahn; title: Notes on contributors.