Chekhov for the 21st century [electronic resource] / edited by Carol Apollonio, Angela Brintlinger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger -- Space. The spaces between the places: Chekhov's "Without a title" and the art of being (out) there / Cathy Popkin -- Chekhov's The duel, or how to colonize responsibly / Edyta Bojanowska -- Circuses and cemeteries: chekhovian topoi / Vladimir Kataev -- Time. Being as event, or the drama of Dasein: Chekhov's The three sisters / Svetlana Evdokimova -- Classical ideas of fate in Chekhov's dramaturgy / Anatoly Sobennikov -- The death of the hero in Chekhov's world / Igor Sukhikh -- Nabokov's debt to Chekhov's art of memory / Jerome Katsell -- Person. Of interpretation and stolen kisses: from poetics to metapoetics in Chekhov's "The kiss" / Michael Finke -- Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold's eyes / Galina Rylkova -- The marriage of Figaro, the marriage of Lopakhin: The hero's revolt / Anna Muza -- Cultural kenosis in Chekhov's "The wife" / Nina Wieda -- Word. "Put yourself in the place of a corncrake": Chekhov's poetics of reconciliation / Radislav Lapushin -- The psychology of Chekhov's creative method and generative poetics / Andrei Stepanov -- Chekhov's style in light of general systems thinking: The Steppe as a positional masterpiece / Vera Zubarev -- Transpositions. The Cherry orchard in the twenty-first century: new adaptations and versions / Ronald Meyer -- Sisters as a case study for "making foreign theater or making theater foreign" / Cynthia Marsh -- Gained in translation: Chekhov's "Lady" / Carol Apollonio -- Uncle Vanya: life in time (reception and interpretation) / Margarita Odesskaya -- Chekhov in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute / Nena Couch -- "A cigar in the fresh air": Chekhov's Yasha lives! / Angela Brintlinger -- Remixing Chekhov / Sasha Waters Freyer.

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