The Word and the Christian Author: Attitudes Toward Verbal Language in Nikolai Gogol's Мёртвые души
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Pribble, Kathryn
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Abstract
- The purpose of this thesis will be to examine Gogol’s mature philosophy of language as it is suggested by Dead Souls, taking into consideration both the novel’s thematics and its narrative technique. I contend that Gogol uses the plot of the novel to model the way in which words are capable of acting as conduits for poshlost’, and that, furthermore, certain aspects of the novel’s narrative structure are motivated by and reflective of Gogol’s awareness that, as an author, he is implicated in his novel’s condemnation of verbal language as a potential instrument of the Devil.
- Date of publication
- autumn 2013
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Putney, Christopher
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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