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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Tác giả khác: Bethea, David M., 1948- (Biên tập viên), Frank, Siggy (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Loạt:Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
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Mục lục:
  • 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.