The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Alissandratos, Julia. 'Tilling in Some Holes in Gogol's Not Wholly Unholy Overcoat'." The Slavonic and East European Review 68, No. 1 (January 1990): 22-40.

Looks at structural and narrative similarities between "The Overcoat" and traditional Russian hagiography (idealized biographies of saints).

Bailey, James. "Some Remarks about the Structure of Gogol's Overcoat.'" In Mnemozina: Studia litteraria russica in honorem Vsevolod Setchkarev, ed. Joachim T. Baer and Norman W. Ingham, pp. 13-22. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1974.

Gives a detailed structural analysis of "The Overcoat," in order to demonstrate the amount of care Gogol gave to the organization of his story.

Bernheimer, Charles C. "Cloaking the Self: The Literary Space of Gogol's Overcoat'." PMLA 90, No. 1 (January 1975): 53-61.

Contends that the reflexive structure of...

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