Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts /
"The book advances an original and provocative argument about the formation, career, and legacies of Vladimir Nabokov, for whom artistic and moral acts served as testaments to free will"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Where Nature Ends and Art Begins: Courtesy, Love, Pity
- Courtoisie: Une Élegance Morale
- The Duel of Honor: Nabokov, Pushkin, Kant
- Hospitality and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: Nabokov, Pushkin, Shakespeare
- The Art of Lying: Nabokov, Tolstoy, Botkin
- The End of Courtesy, the End of Art: Nabokov and Proust
- Epilogue. Van, Gawain, and Kant's Green Iris.