Nose-gaping: The Smells of Mason & Dixon
This article examines Pynchon’s evocations of smell in Mason & Dixon as a vehicle for critiquing notions of the rational subject and the bounded text. The nose is posed as a carnivalesque counterpart to the eye, the sense organ most readily associated with empiricism. The directional gaze, c...
Main Author: | Mike Phillips |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-07-01
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Series: | Orbit: A Journal of American Literature |
Online Access: | https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/768/ |
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