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Autore |
Norman Will <1978-, > |
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Titolo |
Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-283-64379-0 |
0-203-10806-X |
1-136-26436-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (223 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 19 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social history in literature |
Time in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Nabokov in literary history -- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse -- Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance -- Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister -- Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust -- Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov -- Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself - that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism - this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading his American work alongside the violent upheavals of twentieth-century ideological conflicts in Europe and the United States. This approach explores how the author's characteristic temporal manipul |
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