Contributor
Flath, Carol A. (Carol Apollonio) editor.
ImprintLanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Descriptionxxxiv, 323 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Reader reception of Chekhov's letters at the beginning of the Twentieth Century / Liya Bushkanets -- Some like it hot: the censored letters / Vladimir Kataev -- On editing and translating Chekhov's letters / Rosamund Bartlett -- Imaginary Chekhov? Yet another fabrication by Boris Sadovskoy / Igor Sukhikh -- Chekhov's "Postal Prose" / Vladimir Lakshin -- Letters not about Chekhov: on how we read Chekhov's letters / Michael Finke -- Chekhov's letters: slow reading / Alevtina Kuzicheva -- The writer's correspondence as a narrative genre: aspects of Chekhov's epistolary prose / Irina Gitovich -- A unity of vision: Chekhov's letters / Alexander Chudakov -- "I listen to my Irtysh beating against coffins": the existential and dreamlike in Chekhov's letters / Radislav Lapushin -- A playwright's letters / Emma Polotskaya -- Homo Sachaliensis: Chekhov as a family man / Galina Rylkova -- Russian binaries and the question of culture: Chekhov's true Intelligent / Svetlana Evdokimova -- Burned letters: reconstructing the Chekhov-Levitan friendship / Serge Gregory -- Verbal games and animal metaphors in Chekhov's correspondence with Olga Knipper / John Douglas Clayton -- The withered tree / Zinovy Paperny -- Anton Chekhov and D.H. Lawrence: the art of letters and the discourse of mortality / Katherine Tiernan O'Connor -- Preface: Chekhov's blotter / Dina Rubina -- Chekhov's first dissertation proposal (to Alexander Chekhov, from Moscow, 17/18 April 1883) / Michael Finke -- Letters, dreams, and their environments (to Dmitry Grigorovich, from Moscow, 12 February 1887) / Matthew Mangold -- Chekhov's letter to Lermontov (to Mikhail Chekhov, from the ship Dir, 28 July 1888) / Katherine Tiernan O'Connor -- Mission impossible (letters from 1888-89) / Robin Feuer Miller -- Chekhov's "Holy of Holies": the poetics of corporeity (to Alexei Pleshcheev, from Moscow, 4 October 1888) / Svetlana Evdokimova -- Winged things (to Alexei Suvorin, from Moscow, 17 October 1889) / Elizabeth F. Geballe -- A fragment from the aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov's letters to Suvorin (to Alexei Suvorin, 9 March 1890; 9 December 1890; 17 December 1890) / Robert Louis Jackson -- Why not stay here, so long as it's not boring? (to family, from Siberia, 23-26 June 1890) / Carol Apollonio -- A prescription to keep love at bay (to Lika Mizinova, from Bogimovo, 20 June 1891) / Serge Gregory -- Sympathy for the devil (to Alexei Suvorin from Melikhovo, 8 April 1892) / Cathy Popkin -- Doctor Chekhov comes to terms with Tolstoy (to Alexei Suvorin, from Melikhovo, 1 August 1892) / Caryl Emerson -- In the hospital (to Rimma Vashchuk, from Moscow, 27 March 1897) / Rosamund Bartlett -- The power of memory (to Fyodor Batyushkov, from Nice, 15 December 1897) / Elena Gorokhova -- I have no faith in our intelligentsia (to Ivan Orlov, from Yalta, 22 February 1899) / Andrei Stepanov -- Forgive, forget, and write (to Ivan Leontyev [Shcheglov], from Yalta, 2 February 1900) / Sharon M. Carnicke -- In place of a conclusion (to Grigory Rossolimo and to Maria Chekhova, from Badenweiler, 28 June 1904) / Radislav Lapushin.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Note:"Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial--though until now neglected--epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history, translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose, poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general audience." --From the publisher.
