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Autore |
Straumann Barbara |
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Titolo |
Figurations of exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov / / Barbara Straumann [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008 |
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0-7486-5189-6 |
1-282-05894-0 |
9786612058943 |
0-7486-3647-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Exiles in literature |
Emigration and immigration in literature |
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures |
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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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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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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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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Nabokov's Dislocations; Chapter 2 Refiguring Loss and Exile in Speak, Memory; Chapter 3 'Aesthetic Bliss' and Its Allegorical Displacements in Lolita; Part II Hitchcock's Wanderings; Chapter 4 Inhabiting Feminine Suspicion; Chapter 5 Wandering and Assimilation in North by Northwest; Chapter 6 Epilogue: Psychoanalytic Dislocation; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak Memory Lolita The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Suspicion North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt. |
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