Research Catalog

Title

Chronotopes of modernity in Chekhov / Tintti Klapuri.

Author

Klapuri, Tintti,

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

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Details

Description

186 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The book shows Chekhov in a new light, as a writer with a synthetic ethical worldview on which his poetics are based. The book?s key finding is that the temporal experience of modernity lies at the centre of Chekhov?s work. This conclusion is reached by comparing the ways in which modern temporality is represented in the different genres in which Chekhov wrote, from the non-fictional Sakhalin Island to his short fiction and drama. In terms of methodology, the book combines the historiographical and sociological views of modernity as based on a certain understanding of time with Mikhail Bakhtin?s concept of the chronotope.

Series Statement

Slovo: slavistische Studien ; 2

Uniform Title

Slovo--slavistische Studien ; 2.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
• Čechov, Anton Pavlovič, 1860-1904
• Moderne
• Raum
• Russian literature > Themes, motives
• Space in literature
• Themes, motives
• Time in literature
• Zeit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.

Contents

Failed modernity: Sakhalin Island. Chekhov's s empirical approach ; The chronotope of exile ; Without a future perspective ; Non-productive work and meaningless time ; The progressive vision ; Social adaptation ; Chekhov the explorer -- Unfinality in short fiction. Situatedness as a narrative phenomenon: "The Student" ; Life without a synthesis: "A boring story" -- Dying in the present tense ; "Spoiling the finale" ; Immediate versus reflective presentness: Garshin's "Four days" and "A boring story" ; Transience in "The bishop" ; Institutional and individual temporality ; Resurrection or oblivion: Tolstoy's "The death of Ivan Ilyich" and "The bishop" -- The provincial chronotope in short fiction. The narrative of provincial awakening: "The betrothed" ; The prison house of poshlost ; The garden as a liminal space ; Repetition in the provincial chronotope and in the idyll -- The chronotope of the seaside resort in "The lady with a dog" and "The fires" -- The ethics of action: Three sisters. The meaningless provincial exile ; Forms of repetition in characterisation ; Nostalgia and alienation ; The biblical subtext ; Non-action and compassion ; Suffering without meaning -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9783631782026 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783631782033 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783631782040 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019012216

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library