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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Nevsky Prospect"”.
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Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol
… close readings of the "Petersburg Stories" -- "Nevsky Prospect" (1835), "The Nose" (1836), and "The Overcoat" (1842). The place of Mirgorod (1835) as an anomalous experiment in "sincere" prose forms is also addressed. By the time of the publication of the first volume of Dead Souls (1842), …
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Burning flames and seething brains: Passion, imagination, and madness in Karamzin, Pushkin, and Gogol
… and the influence of the Künstlerroman: “Nevskii Prospect,” “The Portrait,” and “Diary of a Madman.” I suggest that Piskarev’s story in “Nevskii Prospect” functions as a parody of Karamzin’s fiction, with which it shares a narratorial mode (Dorrit Cohn’s “consonant thought report”). I also …