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Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology

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Article

Name: The Metamorphoses of Gogol’s Tales in Contemporary American Literature

Authors: Butenina Evgeniya M.

Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russian Federation

In the section Literary Life of the Plot

Issue 1, 2014	Pages 68-76
UDK: 821.111(73)	DOI:

Abstract: The papers focuses on three variations of Gogol’s Petersburg tales, namely, “The Nose”, “The Overcoat” and “The Portrait”, by contemporary American authors Philip Roth, Tom G.Boyle and Gary Shteyngart. The updates of these particular tales in some mystical way continue Gogol’s plot of metamorphosis in mind and body and create an English text on deformations of personality in contemporary world.

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