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    What is Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose about? (Or the smell of Law)

    Loizidou, Elena (2023) What is Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose about? (Or the smell of Law). In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. and Mandic, D. and Nirta, C. and Pavoni, A. (eds.) SMELL. London, UK: University of Westminster Press, pp. 249-255. ISBN 9781915445155.

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    Abstract

    The chapter reads Nikolai Gogol’s short story ‘The Nose’ as a metaphor about judgement. Police officers tend to use their noses to sniff out criminality. This sniffing I argue can be both beneficent and prejudicial to our society.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Law and the Humanities, Centre for
    Depositing User: Elena Loizidou
    Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2024 11:17
    Last Modified: 29 Mar 2025 08:24
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54435

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