Question
Mikhail Bakhtin introduced “monologic” and “dialogic” subdivisions of this form, distinguishing stylistic agreement between authors and narrators within works in this form. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Russian literary form first codified by Boris Eikhenbaum. This form is characterized by stories with narration and dialect reminiscent of oral literature and folk tales.
ANSWER: skaz
[10e] Eikhenbaum first coined the concept of skaz in an essay about this Nikolai Gogol story, in which Akaky Akakievich loses the title garment.
ANSWER: “The Overcoat” [or “The Cloak” or “Shinyel”; accept “How Gogol’s Overcoat Was Made”]
[10m] Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Storyteller” praises the skaz stories of this author, such as “The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea.” A novella by this author analogizes Katerina Ismailova to a Shakespeare villainess.
ANSWER: Nikolai Leskov (The novella is Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.)
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