On the History of Acquaintance of English-Speaking Readers with N. Gogol`'s Poem Dead Souls

  • Наталия Анатольевна Грищенко Сибирский федеральный университет (Красноярск) Email: ashatanatal@mail.ru
  • Евгения Олеговна Ершова Сибирский федеральный университет (Красноярск) Email: genja777@mail.ru
  • Мария Анатольевна Старшева Сибирский федеральный университет (Красноярск) Email: froehlich@yandex.ru
Keywords: English-speaking world, Russian literature, the poem by N. Gogol, translations into English, awareness and perception, plagiarism

Abstract

The article deals with the research of the English-speaking world awareness of N. Gogol`s works. The purpose of the article is to consider the process of the first acquaintance of English-speaking readers with the novel Dead Souls. The material under analysis includes articles from English-language journals of the period under study, as well as diary notes and some introductions to translations. The author describes several stages of the discussion about the authorship of the book Home Life in Russia, published in 1854, which was an illegal translation of the novel Dead Souls. The article contains a review of English-language sources (before the year of 1886), in which references to the poem Dead Souls were found. The author of the article draws attention to the perception of Gogol`s works by English-speaking audience and offers some reviews of it, given by translators, critics, writers, scientists – members of the English-speaking society who were interested in Russia and the Russian literature at that time.

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Author Biographies

Наталия Анатольевна Грищенко, Сибирский федеральный университет (Красноярск)

кандидат филологических наук, доцент института управления бизнес-процессами и экономики

Евгения Олеговна Ершова , Сибирский федеральный университет (Красноярск)

кандидат филологических наук, доцент института управления бизнес-процессами и экономики

Мария Анатольевна Старшева , Сибирский федеральный университет (Красноярск)

кандидат филологических наук, доцент института управления бизнес-процессами и экономики

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Home life in Russia, by a Russian Noble, revised by the editor of «Revelations of Siberia», in 2 vols. London, 1854.

Lefevre, C. Gogol and Anglo-Russian Literary Relationship during the Crimean War // ASEER. 1949.

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Published
2019-12-06
How to Cite
Грищенко Н. А., Ершова Е. О., Старшева М. А. On the History of Acquaintance of English-Speaking Readers with N. Gogol`’s Poem Dead Souls // Philology & Human, 2019, № 4. P. 83-96 DOI: 10.14258/filichel(2019)4-07. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/pm/article/view/6343.
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