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Part of the Norton Library series “As Kate Holland notes in her
fine introduction to these new translations, Nikolai Gogol is a
hybrid: Ukrainian-Russian, Romantic-Realist, equal parts nightmare
and satire. Michael Katz hears this hybrid tension. We sense the
terror and fantasy of Ukrainian folklore flooding Petersburg space,
revealing a Gogol for our haunted times.” —Caryl Emerson
(Princeton University) The Norton Library edition of Selected Tales
features a collection of Nikolai Gogol’s most regarded short
fiction: “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Auntie,” “Nevsky
Prospect,” “Notes of a Madman,” “The Nose,” “The
Carriage,” “The Portrait,” and “The Overcoat” newly
translated by Michael R. Katz. An introduction by Kate Holland
situates the stories in the historical context of imperial St.
Petersburg, inviting readers to appreciate Gogol’s incisive
social critique and the transformative vision of his writing. The
Norton Library is a growing collection of high-quality texts and
translations—influential works of literature and
philosophy—introduced and edited by leading scholars. Norton
Library editions prepare readers for their first encounter with the
works that they’ll re-read over a lifetime. Inviting
introductions highlight the work’s significance and influence,
providing the historical and literary context students need to dive
in with confidence. Endnotes and an easy-to-read design deliver an
uninterrupted reading experience, encouraging students to read the
text first and refer to endnotes for more information as needed. An
affordable price (most $10 or less) encourages students to buy the
book and to come to class with the assigned edition. About the
Authors: Michael R. Katz is C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of
Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has
published translations of more than fifteen Russian novels,
including Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, and
The Brothers Karamazov. Kate Holland is Associate Professor of
Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The
Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of
Genre in the 1870s. She is President of the North American
Dostoevsky Society.
This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together
different scholars from around the world to explore and critique
the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the
pandemic. Pandemic life has become familiar to us, with all its
disruptions and uncertainties. In the second year of COVID, many
societies emerged well attuned to new waves of infections, while
others, having initially demonstrated 'gold standard' responses,
regressed, either through a premature end to public health
restrictions or challenges around vaccine rollouts. In many
countries, bitter social divisions have arisen over mask-wearing,
lockdowns, quarantine and vaccination. To better understand the
ever evolving communicative landscape of COVID-19, this collection
shares updated perspectives from the disciplines of media and
communication, journalism, public health and primary care,
sociology, and political and behavioural science, addressing the
major issues that have confronted communicators, including vaccine
hesitancy, misinformation, and the mobilisation of community driven
communication responses as restrictions eased various parts of the
world.
This book explores communication during the first year of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring the work of leading communication
scholars from around the world, it offers insights and analyses
into how individuals, organisations, communities, and nations have
grappled with understanding and responding to the pandemic that has
rocked the world. The book examines the role of journalists and
news media in constructing meanings about the pandemic, with
chapters focusing on public interest journalism, health workers and
imagined audiences in COVID-19 news. It considers public health
responses in different countries, with chapters examining
community-driven approaches, communication strategies of
governments and political leaders, public health advocacy, and
pandemic inequalities. The role of digital media and technology is
also unravelled, including social media sharing of misinformation
and memetic humour, crowdsourcing initiatives, the use of data in
modelling, tracking and tracing, and strategies for managing
uncertainties created in a pandemic.
The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor
Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first
century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky's Russia. A
Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and
readers navigate the writer's fiction and his world, to better
understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which
Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive
view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents
from Dostoevsky's own time (excerpts from his letters, his
journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well
as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the
contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper
understanding of Dostoevsky's world and his writing, offering new
paths and directions for interpreting his writing.
This book explores communication during the first year of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring the work of leading communication
scholars from around the world, it offers insights and analyses
into how individuals, organisations, communities, and nations have
grappled with understanding and responding to the pandemic that has
rocked the world. The book examines the role of journalists and
news media in constructing meanings about the pandemic, with
chapters focusing on public interest journalism, health workers and
imagined audiences in COVID-19 news. It considers public health
responses in different countries, with chapters examining
community-driven approaches, communication strategies of
governments and political leaders, public health advocacy, and
pandemic inequalities. The role of digital media and technology is
also unravelled, including social media sharing of misinformation
and memetic humour, crowdsourcing initiatives, the use of data in
modelling, tracking and tracing, and strategies for managing
uncertainties created in a pandemic.
The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor
Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first
century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky's Russia. A
Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and
readers navigate the writer's fiction and his world, to better
understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which
Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive
view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents
from Dostoevsky's own time (excerpts from his letters, his
journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well
as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the
contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper
understanding of Dostoevsky's world and his writing, offering new
paths and directions for interpreting his writing.
Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with
genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in
the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed
to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the
disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the
1860s. This required him to reinvent the genre. At the same time,
he sought to infuse his novels with the capacity to inspire belief
in social and spiritual reintegration, and to this end he returned
to old forms and structures that were already becoming outmoded. In
thoughtful readings of Demons, The Adolescent, A Writer's Diary,
and The Brothers Karamazov, Holland delineates Dostoevsky's
struggle to adapt a genre to the reality of the present, with all
its upheavals, while maintaining a utopian vision of Russia's
future mission.
Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles
with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In "The Novel
in the Age of Disintegration, " Kate Holland brings historical
context to bear, showing that Dostoevsky wanted to use the form of
the novel as a means of depicting disintegration brought on by
various crises in Russian society in the 1860s. This required him
to reinvent the genre. At the same time he sought to infuse his
novels with the capacity to inspire belief in social and spiritual
reintegration, so he returned to some older conventions of a
society that was already becoming outmoded. In thoughtful readings
of "Demons, The Adolescent, A Writer's Diary, " and "The Brothers
Karamazov, " Holland delineates Dostoevsky's struggle to adapt a
genre to the reality of the present, with all its upheavals, while
maintaining a utopian vision of Russia's future mission.
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