The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136601570
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov by : Vladimir E. Alexandrov

Download or read book The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir E. Alexandrov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. This companion constitutes a virtual encyclopaedia of Nabokov, and occupies a unique niche in scholarship about him. Articles on individual works by Nabokov, including his short stories and poetry, provide a brief survey of critical reactions and detailed analyses from diverse vantage points. For anyone interested in Nabokov, from scholars to readers who love his works, this is an ideal guide. Its chronology of Nabokov's life and works, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and a detailed index make it easy to find reliable information any aspect of Nabokov's rich legacy.

Understanding Vladimir Nabokov

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Total Pages : 184 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Vladimir Nabokov by : Stephen Jan Parker

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698845
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Vladimir Nabokov by : Paul D. Morris

Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Paul D. Morris and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-09-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until now a neglected facet of his oeuvre. Morris' unique and insightful study re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source of his distinctive authorial - lyric - voice. After offering a critical overview of the multi-staged history of the reception of Nabokov's poetry and an extensive analysis of his poetic writing, Morris argues that Nabokov's poetry has largely been misinterpreted and its place in his oeuvre misunderstood. Through a detailed examination of the form and content of Nabokov's writings, Morris demonstrates that Nabokov's innovations in the realms of drama, the short story, and the novel were profoundly shaped by his lyric sensibility.

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496810961
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov written by Robert Golla and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic style that advanced the boundaries of modern literature more than any author since James Joyce. In a career that spanned over six decades, he produced dozens of iconic works, including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and his classic autobiography, Speak, Memory. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years. Beginning with the controversy surrounding the American publication of Lolita in 1958, he offers trenchant, witty views on society, literature, education, the role of the author, and a range of other topics. He discusses the numerous literary and symbolic allusions in his work, his use of parody and satire, as well as analyses of his own literary influences. Nabokov also provided a detailed portrait of his life—from his aristocratic childhood in prerevolutionary Russia, education at Cambridge, apprenticeship as an émigré writer in the capitals of Europe, to his decision in 1940 to immigrate to the United States, where he achieved renown and garnered an international readership. The interviews in this collection are essential for seeking a clearer understanding of the life and work of an author who was pivotal in shaping the landscape of contemporary fiction.

The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose

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Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5881083520
Total Pages : 767 pages
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Download or read book The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose written by J?rgen Bodenstein and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1977 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vladimir Nabokov

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504023315
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Book Synopsis Vladimir Nabokov by : Alan Levy

Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Alan Levy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Velvet Butterfly is the third in a series of introductions to some of our major literary figures by the noted cultural journalist and foreign correspondent Alan Levy.

Authorship in Nabokov’s Prefaces

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443873020
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Authorship in Nabokov’s Prefaces written by Jacqueline Hamrit and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between “the death of the author” (Barthes) and “the return of the author” (Couturier), this work suggests another perspective on authorship through an analysis of Nabokov’s prefaces. It is here argued that the author, being neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparitions and receding disappearances in the double gesture of mastery without mastery which Derrida calls ‘exappropriation’, that is, a simultaneous attempt to appropriate one’s work, control it, have it under one’s power and expropriate it, losing control by loosening one’s grip. The intention of this is to approach, through one’s experience of reading and interpreting, the experience of self-effacement and impersonality pertaining to writing (cf. Blanchot). Prefaces are considered to be suitable places for the deconstruction of the classical image of Nabokov’s arrogance through the unearthing of his reserve and vulnerability. This work provides an account of the mere intuition (which, therefore, does not pretend to be a conclusive and definitive interpretation) of another image of Nabokov whose undeniable talent for deception seems in accordance with a need for discretion and secrecy.

Nabokov's Congeries

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Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Nabokov's Congeries by : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Download or read book Nabokov's Congeries written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, a novel and excerpts from longer fiction, poetry, essays, and an excerpt from the autobiography of writer Vladimir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 074630868X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Book Synopsis Vladimir Nabokov by : Neil Cornwell

Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Neil Cornwell and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov's extraordinary literary career, as a master of Russian and English prose, is unique. Acclaimed in the limited Russian emigre world, under the name of Sirin, Nabokov switched to writing in English and settled in America, a refugee from Hitler's Europe. Exile, memory, lost love and the magic of childhood are among his themes. Neil Cornwell's study, published for the Nabokov centenary, examines five of Nabokov's major novels, plus his short stories and critical writings, situating his work against the ever-expanding mass of VN scholarship, and noting his cultural debt to Russia, Europe, America and the British Isles.

Turgenev and Russian Culture

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023996
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Turgenev and Russian Culture by : Joe Andrew

Download or read book Turgenev and Russian Culture written by Joe Andrew and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume has as its central aim a reassessment of the works of Ivan Turgenev for the twenty-first century. Against the background of a decline in interest in nineteenth-century literature the articles gathered here seek to argue that the period in general, and his work in particular, still have much to offer the modern sensibility. The volume also offers a great variety of approaches. Some of the contributors tackle major works by Turgenev, including Rudin and Smoke, while others address key themes that run through all his creative work. Yet others address his influence, as well as his broader relationship with Russian and other cultures. A final group of articles examines other key figures in Russian literary culture, including Belinskii, Herzen and Tolstoi. The work will therefore be of interest to students, postgraduates and specialists in the field of Russian literary culture. At the same time, they will stand as a tribute to the life and work of Professor Richard Peace, a long-standing specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature, in whose honour the volume has been compiled.

Short Story Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Strong Opinions

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679726098
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Strong Opinions by : Vladimir Nabokov

Download or read book Strong Opinions written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-03-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong Opinions offers Nabokov's trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita. • "First published in 1973, this collection of interviews and essays offers an intriguing insight into one of the most brilliant authors of the 20th century." - The Guardian Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, among other subjects. Keen to dismiss those who fail to understand his work and happy to butcher those sacred cows of the literary canon he dislikes, Nabokov is much too entertaining to be infuriating, and these interviews, letters and articles are as engaging, challenging and caustic as anything he ever wrote.

First Love

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Publisher : re.press
ISBN 13 : 0980668301
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis First Love by : Sigi Jottkandt

Download or read book First Love written by Sigi Jottkandt and published by re.press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Love: A Phenomenology of the One takes seriously literatureOCOs repeated attestations of a One in its stories, poems and plays entitled First Love. With this groundbreaking work, JAttkandt suspends the contemporary philosophical stricture against every idea of a whole to unmask the figure concealed behind the psychoanalytic myth of first love."

Short Story Index: 1964-1968

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
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Pniniad

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801085
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Pniniad by : Galya Diment

Download or read book Pniniad written by Galya Diment and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate of many, served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin. She offers astute comments on Nabokov�s fictional process in creating Timogey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history. Between the two of them, Nabokov and Szeftel embodied much of the complexity and variety of the Russian postrevolution emigre experience in Europe and the United States. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as on interview with family, friends, and collegues, Diment illuminates a fascinating cultural terrain. Pniniad--the epic of Pnin--begins with Szeftel�s early life in Russia and ends with his years in Seattle at the University of Washington, turning pivotally upon the time in Szeftel�s and Nabokov�s lives intersected at Cornell. Nabokov apparantly was both amused by and admiring of the innocence of his historian friend. Szeftel�s feelings towards Nabokov were also mixed, raning from intense disappointment over rebuffed attempts to collaborate with Nabokov to persistent envy of Nabokov�s success and an increasing wistfulness over his own sense of failure.

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544106555
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters, 1940–1977 written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike

Robert Smithson

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681551
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Robert Smithson by : Ann Reynolds

Download or read book Robert Smithson written by Ann Reynolds and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the interplay between cultural context and artistic practice in the work of Robert Smithson. Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In Robert Smithson, Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson's working life—magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library—from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson's art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time. A central focus of Reynolds's analysis is Smithson's fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned there again and again—alone and with fellow artists—to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be. For those who guarded the integrity of the established art world, New Jersey was "elsewhere"; but for Smithson, "elsewheres" were the defining, if often forgotten, locations on the map of contemporary culture.