CONTENTS:

A Note on the Contributors and the Editor
A Note on Transliteration and Editions
Introduction

I. The Un/Sayable

1. Renate Lachmann
The Semantic Construction of the Void

2. Jurij Lotman
The Truth as Lie in Gogol's Poetics

3. Mikhail N. Epshtein
The Irony of Style: The Demonic Element in Gogol's Concept of Russia

4. Christopher Putney
Gogol's Theology of Privation and the Devil in Ivan Fedorovič Špon'ka

5. Susi Frank
Negativity Turns Positive: Mediations Upon the Divine Liturgy

II. Emptiness/Plenitude

6. Mixail Vajskopf
Imperial Mythology and Negative Landscape in Dead Souls

7. Boris Gasparov
Alienation and Negation: Gogol's View of Ukraine

8. Michael Holquist
The Tyranny of Difference: Gogol and the Sacred

9. Boris Groys
Who Killed the Dead Souls?

III. Unexpressing

10. Sergej Gončarov
The Metaphysics of Silence in Gogol's Early Fiction

11. Sven Spieker
Esthesis and Anesthesia: The Sublime in Arabesques

12. Natascha Drubek-Meyer
Gogol's Negation of Sense Perception and Memory

13. Mikhail Yampolsky
Double Being: Laughter and the Sublime

Works Cited

Index