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  title info:
    title: Olfactory images and creation of meaning in Gogol's "The Nose" and Rushdie's Midnight's Children
  name:
    name part: Vintrova, Magdalena
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Eide, Marian
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In my thesis I argue that Gogol's "The Nose" and Rushdie's Midnight's Children are texts in which both authors are acutely aware of the fact that they write within a larger discursive framework, supported and developed by the privileged and ruling class of both societies. These grand narratives are in fact selected interpretations of reality, which circulate in the public sphere, designating the desired 'readings' of various sociocultural phenomena. By means of reiteration and enforcement through governmental powers, the privileged narratives produce and inscribe meaning onto objects and events, turning them into icons with very specific and restricted signification. In this way, truth and meaning are under control of select individuals and interest groups. I propose that Gogol in "The Nose" and Rushdie in Midnight's Children use nasal discourse to discern the manipulative process of ideological intervention, which selectively labels specific discourse and interpretation as the truth, and imposes it upon the life and history of the governed community. To utilize the olfactory in a manner challenging the dominant narratives, the authors construct nasal images as essentially ambiguous. In this way they point out to the fluid and unstable nature of reality. In the world of their fiction, reality does not have a singular meaning; every sign is open to interpretation, producing a new meaning, depending on the circumstances of the interpretative act. The nose itself is chosen for this symbolic function for two reasons: the physiognomic tradition of reading faces nests moral ambiguity in the nose, and scent is the most ambiguous of sensory stimuli. Chapter I focuses on the structural role of the olfactory, in Chapters III and IV I discuss how Rushdie and Gogol employ and adapt physiognomic theory to constitute the olfactory as ambiguous images. In Chapters V and VI show that both authors install the olfactory-introduced ambiguity into the very foundations of their texts.
  note: by Magdalena Vintrova.
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: "Major Subject: Comparative Literature and Culture"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Oct. 15, 2004.)
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M.A. Texas A & M University 2004.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major Comparative Literature and Culture
  subject:
    topic: Rushdie
  subject:
    topic: Gogol
  subject:
    topic: olfactory
  subject:
    topic: nose
  subject:
    topic: midnight's children
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1280
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 050107
    record change date: 20151031161711.0
    record identifier: in00002024173