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Nabokov, history and the texture of time
Will Norman 1978-
2012
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Title:
Nabokov, history and the texture of time
Author:
Will Norman 1978-
Description:
Nabokov in literary history -- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse -- Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance -- Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister -- Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust -- Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov -- Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics.
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself - that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism - this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading his American work alongside the violent upheavals of twentieth-century ideological conflicts in Europe and the United States. This approach explores how the author's characteristic temporal manipul
Publication Date:
2012
Publisher:
New York : Routledge
Format:
1 online resource (223 p.).
Identifier:
ISBN 1-283-64379-0;ISBN 0-203-10806-X;ISBN 1-136-26436-1
Related Titles:
Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 19 Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
;
Social history in literature
;
Time in literature
;
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Language:
English
Source:
01DAL UDM ALMA
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