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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Blue Ridge Summit
This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles--biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history--to...
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This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles--biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history--to characterize Chekhov's key epistolary concerns and to examine their role in his life. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citation, Transliteration, and Dates -- Introduction. Chekhov's Letters: An Integral Body of Work -- Part I. PUBLICATION HISTORY, RECEPTION, AND TEXTUAL ISSUES -- Chapter One. Reader Reception of Chekhov's Letters at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter Two. Some Like It Hot: The Censored Letters -- Chapter Three. On Editing and Translating Chekhov's Letters -- Chapter Four. Imaginary Chekhov? Yet Another Fabrication by Boris Sadovskoy -- Part II. APPROACHES TO A BODY OF WORK -- Chapter Five. Chekhov's "Postal Prose" -- Chapter Six. Letters Not about Chekhov: On How We Read Chekhov's Letters -- Chapter Seven. Chekhov's Letters: Slow Reading -- Chapter Eight. The Writer's Correspondence as a Narrative Genre: Aspects of Chekhov's Epistolary Prose -- Part III. GENRE -- Chapter Nine. A Unity of Vision: Chekhov's Letters -- Chapter Ten. "I Listen to My Irtysh Beating against Coffins": The Existential and Dreamlike in Chekhov's Letters -- Chapter Eleven. A Playwright's Letters -- Part IV. FROM LIFE TO ART: READINGS -- Chapter Twelve. Homo Sachaliensis: Chekhov as a Family Man -- Chapter Thirteen. Russian Binaries and the Question of Culture: Chekhov's True Intelligent -- Chapter Fourteen. Burned Letters: Reconstructing the Chekhov-Levitan Friendship -- Chapter Fifteen. Verbal Games and Animal Metaphors in Chekhov's Correspondence with Olga Knipper -- Chapter Sixteen. The Withered Tree -- Chapter Seventeen. Anton Chekhov and D. H. Lawrence: The Art of Letters and the Discourse of Mortality -- Part V. MY FAVORITE CHEKHOV LETTER -- Chapter Eighteen. Preface: Chekhov's Blotter -- Chapter Nineteen. Chekhov's First Dissertation Proposal: To Alexander Chekhov, from Moscow, 17/18 April 1883.
