Research Catalog

Title

Chekhov the immigrant : translating a cultural icon / edited by Michael C. Finke & Julie de Sherbinin.

Publication

Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Coles, Robert.
• De Sherbinin, Julie W.
• Finke, Michael C., 1957-

Description

iii, 352 p. : ill.; 23 cm. +

Summary

"Comprising the proceedings of a 2004 NEH-funded symposium marking the hundredth anniversary of Chekhov's death, Chekhov the Immigrant takes a multi-disciplinary approach to Chekhov's impact on American culture with: articles by literary scholars, contemporary authors of fiction and criticism, theater directors, and translators; transcripts of forums on translating Chekhov and Chekhov and medicine; and a DVD recording of a conversation about Chekhov with the eminent American physician and author Robert Coles"--Publisher's summary.

Subjects

• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 > Translations into English > History and criticism > Congresses
• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 > Knowledge > Medicine > Congresses
• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 > Appreciation > United States > Congresses
• Medicine in literature > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

System Details (note)

• DVD-R, NTSC.

Contents

On Chekhov's art / Robert Louis Jackson -- Forum on translation / moderators, Carol Apollonio Flath and Julie de Sherbinin ; translators, Peter Constantine, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky -- Seeing Chekhov whole / Laurence Senelick -- Translating Chekhov's plays : a collaboration between translator, director, and actors / Michael Henry Heim -- Translating Chekhov's plays without Russian, or, The nasty habit of adaptation / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- American iconography of Chekhov / Julie De Sherbinin -- Writing in English with a Chekhov muse / Katherine Tiernan O'Connor -- Hunters off the beaten path : the dismantling of pastoral myth in Chekhov and Crane / Andrew R. Durkin -- The sound of distant thunder : Chekhov and Chekhovian subtexts in Tom Stoppard's Coast of utopia / Anna Muza -- My Chekhov / James McConkey -- Chekhov and aspiring writers / Claire Messud -- Learning from Chekhov / Francine Prose -- Chekhov's simplicity / James Wood -- Chekhov's "Rothschild's fiddle" : by the rivers of Babylon in Eastern Orthodox liturgy / Robert Louis Jackson -- Chekhov's anti-melodramatic imagination : inoculation against the diseases of contemporary theater / Svetlana Evdokimova -- Doctor without patients/man without a spleen : a meditation on Chekhov's practice / Cathy Popkin -- Incapacity / Spencer Golub -- Finding the boy band in Chekhov's The seagull : Lightbox's gull / Ellen Beckerman -- Must there be an orchard in The cherry orchard? : understanding and staging Chekhov / Carol Rocamora -- A conversation with Dr. Robert Coles : Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams / Robert Coles (interviewed by Michael Finke) -- Heal thyself, hide thyself : why did Chekhov ignore his TB? / Michael C. Finke -- Chekhov's Sakhalin Island as a medical geography / Conevery Bolton Valenčius -- A few words on Chekhov and the medical humanities / Richard Kahn -- Seminar on Anton Chekhov and the medical humanities : a discussion of selected Chekhov stories / Michael Finke and Richard Kahn, moderators -- About Chekhov (excerpt) / I.N. Altshuller (trans. Eugene Alper) -- Notes on contributors.

ISBN

• 9780893573454 (hardcover)
• 0893573450 (hardcover)
• 9780893573409 (pbk.)
• 089357340X (pbk.)

LCCN

2006039684

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library