Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dragunoiu, Dana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977
Ethics in literature.
Free will and determinism in literature.
Morale dans la littérature.
Libre arbitre et déterminisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Free will and determinism in literature
Ethics in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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