Nabokov's Pale fire : the magic of artistic discovery /

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Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically differe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boyd, Brian, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977. > Pale fire.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977.
Nabokov, Vladimir V.
Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
Nabokov, Vladimir, > 1899-1977.
Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977). > Pale fire.
Nabokov, Vladimir, > (1899-1977)
Pale fire (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich)
Pale fire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1899-1977 > Crítica e interpretación.
Literatura estadounidense > Siglo XX > Crítica e interpretación.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Poem
  • Pale Fire
  • Antithesis: Rereading
  • In Search of the Story Behind
  • Intrusions of the Real: Shade
  • Excursions from the Real: Kinbote
  • Problems: Shade and Kinbote
  • Synthesis: Re-Rereading
  • Discovery as Story
  • Transformation
  • From Appalachia to Zembla: A Woman Spurned
  • "Pale Fire": Origins and Ends
  • "A Poem in Four Cantos": Sign and Design
  • From Zembla to Appalachia: The Contrapuntal Theme
  • "Pale Fire," Pale Fire, pale fire: The Spiral Unwinds.

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