Nabokov and his fiction : new perspectives
Julian W. Connolly (Editor)
Published in 1999 to mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars offering perspectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays cover a broad range of topics and approaches.
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521632836, 0521632838
40052738
Introduction : Nabokov at 100 / Julian W. Connolly
Setting his myriad faces in his text : Nabokov's authorial presence revisited / Gavriel Shapiro
Vladimir Nabokov and the art of autobiography / Galya Diment
The near-tyranny of the author : Pale fire / Maurice Couturier
Jewish questions in Nabokov's art and life / Maxim D. Shrayer
"The dead are good mixers" : Nabokov's versions of individualism / Leona Toker
Nabokov's trinity (on the movement of Nabokov's themes) / Gennady Barabtarlo
Nabokov's (re)visions of Dostoevsky / Julian W. Connolly
Her monster, his nymphet: Nabokov and Mary Shelley / Ellen Pifer
Vladimir Nabokov and Rupert Brooke / D. Barton Johnson
Clio laughs last : Nabokov's answer to historicism / Alexander Dolinin
Poshlust, culture criticism, Adorno, and Malraux / John Burt Foster, Jr