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There are 16 critical essays on The Nose.
Critical Essays on The Nose

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Critical Essay by Ivan Yermakov
18,082 words, approx. 60 pages
 In the following essay, Yermakov offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of “The Nose,” asserting that Gogol's tale is an exploration of sexual desire and repression.
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Critical Essay by James B. Woodward
13,079 words, approx. 44 pages
 In the following excerpt, originally published in 1981, Woodward contends that “The Nose” describes an allegorical war between the sexes in which the masculine triumphs over the feminine.
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Critical Essay by Sergei Bocharov
10,276 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following essay, Bocharov considers Gogol's concern with noses as a recurring motif in his fiction, particularly in the short story “The Nose.”
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Critical Essay by A. L. Bem
10,148 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in 1928, Bem evaluates the influence of Gogol's “The Nose” on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella The Double.
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Critical Essay by Ann Shukman
7,849 words, approx. 26 pages
 In the following essay, Shukman asserts that a valid interpretation of “The Nose” must take into account that which is excluded from the narrative through various omissions, digressions, and ellipses.
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Critical Essay by Peter C. Spycher
6,930 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, Spycher discusses sexual symbolism in “The Nose,” asserting that the loss of the nose symbolizes a loss of sexual power.
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Critical Essay by Reed Merrill
4,428 words, approx. 15 pages
 In the following essay, Merrill discusses elements of the comic-grotesque in both Gogol's original short story “The Nose” and the 1930 operatic adaptation, The Nose.
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Critical Essay by Herbert E. Bowman
3,633 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following essay, Bowman surveys the critical reaction to “The Nose” and offers his own interpretation of Gogol's story.
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Critical Essay by William Edward Brown
2,772 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the following excerpt, Brown maintains that “The Nose” should not be interpreted as a story containing a moral message, but should be understood as a tale which “exists for itself.”
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Critical Essay by Amos Oz
2,552 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the following essay, Oz contends that the various distortions of logic in the telling of “The Nose” represents the garbled logic of Russian bureaucracy.
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Critical Essay by William Woodin Rowe
2,114 words, approx. 7 pages
 In the following excerpt, Rowe asserts that “The Nose” represents a reversal of the realms of waking and sleeping, reality and dream.
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Critical Essay by Donald Fanger
1,805 words, approx. 6 pages
 In the following excerpt, Fanger asserts that “The Nose” is a meta-narrative that explores the creative act of fiction writing.

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