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Nabokov, perversely /

"This clear and compelling book is a delight. Nabokov, Perversely is a well-reasoned and brilliant attempt to revolutionize Nabokov studies. Eric Naiman has written a Nabokov book as much for Nabokov skeptics as for Nabokovians."--Eliot Borenstein, New York University, author of Overkill:...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naiman, Eric, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A filthy look at Shakespeare's Lolita
  • Art as afterglow (Bend sinister)
  • Perversion in Pnin
  • Hermophobia (on sexual orientation and reading Nabokov)
  • Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran : Nabokov and Nafisi
  • Lolita in the real world
  • Blackwell's Paradox and Fyodor's Gift : a kinder and gentler Nabokov
  • Litland : the allegorical poetics of The defense
  • The costs of character : the maiming of the narrator in "A guide to Berlin"
  • The meaning of "life" : Nabokov in code (King, queen, knave and Ada)
  • Epilogue : what if Nabokov had written "The double" : reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov.