Gogol'

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Gogol'
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Outline

• Flight of the Bumble Bee
• Gogol'
• Viy
• History
• Fairy Tales and Folklore
• What is the story about? What isnt it about?
• Viy (Film, 1967)
• Mythic Birds

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Rimskii-Korsakov and Tsar Saltan

• Nikolai Andreevich Rimskii-Korsakov (18441908)
• Tsar Saltan
• Opera, 1900
• Flight of the Bumble Bee
• Suite, 1903

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Gogol'

• Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (180952)
• Born in Ukraine, lived in St. Petersburg and
  abroad
• Prose (short stories, novel), drama
• The Inspector General (1836)
• Dead Souls (1842)
• Satire, the fantastic, the grotesque

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Viy (1)

• Story from collection Mirgorod (1835)
• Parallels with tales
• The Sorceress (Afanas'ev 56768)
• The Enchanted Princess (Afanas'ev 60011)
• Church setting and demonism
• The Vampire (Afanas'ev 59398)

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Viy (2)

• What is the story about? What isnt it about?
• What are the key events in the story? Which
  features are important and which are unimportant?
• What does the story ultimately tell us about the
  world and the place of humans in it?
• What is the dominant atmosphere in the story?

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Viy (3)

• Power of gaze and word
• Religion vs folkloric evil
• Witch
• Rusalka
• Petty demons
• Viy

• Fairy-tale motifs include
• Riding
• Three-night vigil
• Witch
• Rusalka
• Vampire
• Circle as prophylaxis
• Sexual initiation

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Viy (Film)

• 1967
• Directors
• Georgi Kropachyov (b. 1930)
• Aleksandr Ptushko (190073)

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Legendary Birds

• Sirin
• Alkonost
• Gamaiun
• Finist

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Homer (1)
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Homer (2)
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Waterhouse
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Kievan Rus' (1)
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Kievan Rus' (2)
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Kievan Rus' (3)
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Bilibin (1)
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Bilibin (2)
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Bilibin (3)
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Bilibin (4)
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Zvorykin
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Vasnetsov (1)
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Vasnetsov (2)
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Palekh
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Ceramic
Abramtsevo
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Ceramic (Detail)
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Lubok (1)
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Lubok (2)
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Lubok (3)
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Lubok (4)
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Lubok (5)
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Lubok (6)
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Lubok (7)
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Lubok (8)
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Lubok (9)
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Lubok (10)
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Goncharova
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Larionov (1)
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Larionov (2)
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Tatyana Tolstaya

• Born 1951 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
• Moved to Moscow and began publishing in 1983
• Published two collections of stories in English
• On the Golden Porch, Knopf, 1989
• Sleepwalker in a Fog, Knopf, 1992