Nabokov, Perversely /
In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and charts the enhanced attention to the connection be...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.