Nikolai Gogol
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's major short story writers
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781438116273
Subjects: Study guides; Criticism and interpretation; Examinations
Description: Presents plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.
Notes: "Works by Nikolai Gogol": p. 90-91.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-94) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York: Infobase Pub., 2012. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Biography of Nikolai Gogol; title: Plot summary of "The portrait"; title: List of characters in "The portrait"; title: Critical views on "The portrait. Leonard J. Kent on ambivalence and unreality ; Donald Fanger on the artist's fate ; Robert Louis Jackson on reality ; Derek Maus on the demonic element; title: Plot summary of "Nevsky prospect"; title: List of characters in "Nevsky prospect"; title: Critical views on "Nevsky prospect." Leonard J. Kent on doubling ; Jesse Zeldin on the interplay of relationships ; Vasily Gippius on fullness ; Richard A. Peace on themes ; Gavriel Shapiro on expectations; title: Plot summary of "The nose"; title: List of characters in "The nose"; title: Critical views on "The nose." Ivan Yermakov on internal logic and the dream ; Jesse Zeldin on materialism ; Ann Shukman on interpretation ; Gary Saul Morson on causation and allegory ; David McDuff on vanity; title: Plot summary of "The overcoat"; title: List of characters in "The overcoat"; title: Critical views on "The overcoat." Henri Troyat on realism and supernaturalism ; Boris Eichenbaum on inverse importance ; Dmitry Chizhevsky on diction and the inanimate object ; Simon Karlinsky on alienation and love ; Jesse Zeldin on innocence and corruption; title: Plot summary of "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his aunt"; title: List of characters in "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his aunt"; title: Critical views on "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his aunt." Leonard J. Kent on the fear of women ; James B. Woodward on the dream as assault ; Michael R. Katz on the real and surreal ; Daniel Rancour-Laferriere on psychoanalysis and the dream.