Essays on Anton P. Chekhov

Introduction 
Robin Feuer Miller
 
Editor’s Note
Cathy Popkin
 
On Chekhov’s Art

Chekhov’s Seagull: The Empty Well, the Dry Lake, and the Cold Cave
“If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: An Essay on Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”
Dostoevsky in Chekhov’s Garden of Eden: “Because of Little Apples”
“The Betrothed”: Chekhov’s Last Testament
Chekhov and Proust: A Posing of the Problem
“The Steppe”: Space and the Journey. A Metaphor for All Times
“The Enemies”: A Story at War with Itself
Chekhov’s “The Student”
The Ethics of Vision: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in The Island of Sakhalin
Dantesque and Dostoevskian Elements in Chekhov’s “In Exile”
Biblical and Literary Allusions in Chekhov’s “Gusev”
Russian Man at the Rendezvous: The Narrator in Chekhov’s “A Little Joke”
“Small Fry”: A Nice Little Easter Story
Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”: “By the Waters of Babylon” in Eastern Orthodox Liturgy
Three Deaths: A Boy, A Goose, and an Infant
A Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov’s Letters to Suvorin
“Grief”: Once Again about the Ending of the Story
Dogs: Text and Subtext in “Lady with a Pet Dog”
Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and Gurov’s Oreanda Meditations in Chekhov’s “Lady with a Pet Dog”
 
Afterword 
Cathy Popkin
 
Appendix: Robert Louis Jackson on “Po delam sluzhby” [“On Official Business”]


Index