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Tables of Contents for Exploring Gogol
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Three Notes to the Reader
xv
Major Events in Gogol's Life
xvii
Works by Gogol Cited in the Text and Notes
xix
PART ONE: PLACE
Bounded Space
3
19
Displacement: ``Old-World Landowners''
22
13
Equilibrium as Place: ``The Two Ivans''
35
14
Place Within: ``Diary of a Madman''
49
18
Place as Nature
67
15
Some Sources of Place
82
15
PART TWO: THE APPREHENDING EYE
The Art of Seeing
97
18
Rome
115
20
Imitation: ``The Portrait''
135
20
An Anxious Eye
155
26
PART THREE: WORD
From Eye to Word
181
33
The Word in Dead Souls
214
41
The Retrieval of the Past
255
18
Word Wielders
273
22
The Search for a Language of Self
295
23
The Failure of the Word
318
27
Notes
345
32
Works Cited
377
14
Index
391