Vladimir Nabokov in context /
"Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, c...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Contextualizing Nabokov / David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank
- Part I : Identity. Nabokov's life in context I: Russia and emigration / Brian Boyd
- Nabokov's life in context II: beyond the emigration / Brian Boyd
- Childhood / Barbara Wyllie
- Women / Lara Delage-Toriel
- Friends and foes / Julian W. Connolly
- Academia / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- Authorial persona / Maria Malikova
- Part II : Places. St Petersburg / Gennady Barabtarlo
- Cambridge / Beci Carver
- Berlin / Stanislav Shvabrin
- Paris / John Burt Foster Jr
- East to West Coast / Monica Manolescu
- Switzerland / Annick Morard
- Part III : Literatures and arts. The Russian literary canon / Alexander Dolinin
- The Western literary canon / Michael Wood
- Publishing: Russian émigré literature / Siggy Frank
- Publishing: American literature / Duncan White
- Detective fiction / Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker
- Samizdat and tamizdat / Ann Komaromi
- Nabokov's visual imagination / Marijeta Bozovic
- Popular culture / Nassim Winnie Balestrini
- Part IV : Ideas and cultures. Science / Stephen H. Blackwell
- Darwinism / David M. Bethea
- Psychoanalysis / Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker
- Faith / Sergei Davydov
- Jewishness as literary device in Nabokov's fiction / Leonid Livak
- Liberalism / Dana Dragunoiu
- Totalitarianism / Olga Voronina
- The Cold War / Will Norman
- The long 1950s / Andrea Carosso
- Transnationalism / Rachel Trousdale.