Nabokov, History, and Temporal Aesthetics.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norman, Will
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature.
Temas:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977
Social history in literature.
Time in literature.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich > Criticism and interpretation.
Histoire sociale dans la littérature.
Temps dans la littérature.
Social history in literature
Time in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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