"The Nose" : a stylistic and critical companion to Nikolai Gogol's story /

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"The Guide focuses on Gogol's language in "The Nose" and his playful twisting of the many Russian idioms that are usually lost in English translations of the story. It traces Gogol's descriptions of St. Petersburg everyday life, familiar to the writer's contemporaries b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blank, Ksana (Author)
Other Authors: Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Ruso
Published: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2021.
Series:Companions to Russian literature.
Subjects:
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, > 1809-1852. > Nos.
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, > 1809-1852 > Language.
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, > 1809-1852 > Aesthetics.
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, > 1809-1852
Nos (Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Aesthetics
Language and languages
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The text in Russian. N.V. Gogol' "Nos"
  • Annotations to the Russian text
  • How "The Nose" is made: language game as the engine of the plot
  • Interpretations. Joke, jest, farce, anecdote ; Social satire ; Mockery of the demonic and of the sacred ; Chronicle of folk superstitions ; A case of castration anxiety ; An echo of German romanticism ; Perfect nonsense ; Shostakovich's opera The Nose ; A play with reality: "The Nose," Kafka, and Dali.

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