Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century

Academic Studies Press, 2021.

Balakin A., Guskov S., Ivantsov V., Juharyan V., Kleespies I., Kokobobo A., Koroliov S., McFadden D., Parts L., Sobol V., Zubkov K.

Under the general editorship: I. Kleespies, L. Parts

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings Ivan Goncharov’s work into a twenty-first-century critical framework, engaging with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, philosophy, and mobility and travel. 

Chapters

Writer or Censor: I. A. Goncharov’s Service in the Departments of Censorship, and the Evolution of Professional Ethics for Censors and Writers in Russia in the 1850s and 1860s

Зубков К. Ю., , in: Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century.: Academic Studies Press, 2021.

In this chapter I attempt to demonstrate that Goncharov’s career in censorship can be explored as a classic case that sheds light on the development of the public sphere in Russia, which underwent significant transformations during the first half of the reign of Alexander II. In the course of these transformations in the 1850s and ...

Added: May 24, 2022

Writer and Chinovnik: The Case of I. A. Goncharov

Guskov S., , in: Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century.: Academic Studies Press, 2021. Ch. 1 P. 3–21.

The author convincingly proves that correlation of the official and the creative in Goncharov’s biography was more complex than ordinarily represented. The two sides of his personality seem to exist in a fruitful interplay (rather than in opposition). The writer’s use of service-related experience to work out creative goals illustrates that the official Goncharov often ...

Added: October 27, 2022

Keywords: цензура, novel, роман, censorship, травелог, travelogue, Ivan Goncharov, Гончаров