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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2021.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.