02906oam 2200637I 450 991046194760332120200520144314.01-283-64379-00-203-10806-X1-136-26436-110.4324/9780203108062 (CKB)2670000000259347(EBL)1039265(OCoLC)815653506(SSID)ssj0000758303(PQKBManifestationID)11486959(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000758303(PQKBWorkID)10789724(PQKB)11116658(MiAaPQ)EBC1039265(Au-PeEL)EBL1039265(CaPaEBR)ebr10611749(CaONFJC)MIL395629(OCoLC)813932670(EXLCZ)99267000000025934720180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNabokov, history and the texture of time /Will NormanNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (223 p.)Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;19Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;19Description based upon print version of record.0-415-53963-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 manipulRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American LiteratureSocial history in literatureTime in literatureElectronic books.Social history in literature.Time in literature.813/.54Norman Will1978-,981145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461947603321Nabokov, history and the texture of time2239386UNINA