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Nabokov and his books : between late modernism and the literary marketplace /
Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional writer; to explore how he balanced his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a booming American literary marketplace; and to reconceptualise the way we think about one of the mos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Permissions; A Note on the Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Coarse Print, Durable Pigments; LASCAUX I & II; BIBLIOPOETICS; THE FALSE QUIXOTE; 1: Contexts; An Unseasonable Form; Late Modernism; Nabokov as Late Modernist; Nabokov and the Cold War; The Literary Marketplace; 2: Inspiration; Pearl Harbor and Ivory Tower; The Creative Writer; Pushkin, Inspiration, and Russian Literary Aesthetics; Symbolism and Acmeism; Monism, Dualism, and Liberalism
- Woodbridge, Bergson, AlexanderDeterminism; The Inspired Book; Iconic Space; 3: Reading; Autonomy and the Market; Good Reading; Spiral Form and Modernism; Spatial Form and Late Modernism; Material Contingency; Lolita and the American Marketplace; Pale Fire; Ada; 4: Publication; Nabokovś Publishers; New Directions; Paratexts and Aesthetics; Forewords; Blurbs; Cover Art; Covering Lolita; 5: Legacy; Celebrity; Posterity; The Collected Edition; Biography and Criticism; Andrew Field; Deaths of the Author; Posthumous Publication; Works Cited; WORKS BY NABOKOV; OTHER WORKS; Index