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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457420903321

Autore

Davies Robin H

Titolo

The European Nabokov web, classicism and T.S. Eliot [[electronic resource] ] : a textual interpretation of Pale fire / / Robin H. Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2011

ISBN

1-61811-131-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Disciplina

891.7342

Soggetti

Classicism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Lingua Franca and Topsy-turvical Coincidence -- II. In Search of Horace and a Web of Sense -- III. Héraclius, Hamlet and Genealogy -- IV. Zembla - "How Farce and Epic Get a Jumbled Race" -- V. Hamlet Unrestored: Sémiramis and the Royal Tomb -- VI. Classical Affinities I : A Modern Aeneas -- VII. Classical affinities II: An Ancient Nisus -- VIII. The Browning Version and Contemporary Reality -- IX. Corn, Cuckoldry, and the Amazonian Chin -- X. Toile d'Eliot or Combinational Delight -- XI. Phoenician Metamorphoses: Myth and Reality -- XII. Varia - Selenography, Kinbote/Botkin, Glaucus, Fénélon -- XIII. Murderous Intrigues -- XIV. Tragedy and the Stagyrite -- XV. Dramatic Poetry, Regicide, and Poetic Drama -- XVI. Germanitas and Les Germains -- XVII. Deus in Machina -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics, and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930's with his young son and Jewish wife, Eliot's passivism must have seemed to him the very antithesis of survival. The enigmatic Pale Fire and its surface triviality suggested that there could be self-consistent logic within the obvious commentary of Charles Kinbote and John Shade's poem. Davies places this work in its vast



European context, forming a bridge between Russian and European literature which will be appreciated by scholars of both.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140702003321

Titolo

Connect; : UNESCO-UNEP environmental education newsletter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Paris], : [Unesco]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching

Technology - Study and teaching

Technical education

Environmental management - Study and teaching

Environmental policy - Study and teaching

Environmental education

Human ecology - Study and teaching

Ecology - Study and teaching

Also available electronically. After 2005, only available on the internet

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico