LEADER 03634nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910457420903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61811-131-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618111319 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087133 035 $a(EBL)3110439 035 $a(OCoLC)922977781 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000675054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11373372 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10668446 035 $a(PQKB)10548057 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110439 035 $a(DE-B1597)541026 035 $a(OCoLC)1135585356 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618111319 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10528130 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL546520 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087133 100 $a20120228d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe European Nabokov web, classicism and T.S. Eliot$b[electronic resource] $ea textual interpretation of Pale fire /$fRobin H. Davies 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-936235-65-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAbbreviations --$tForeword --$tIntroduction --$tI. Lingua Franca and Topsy-turvical Coincidence --$tII. In Search of Horace and a Web of Sense --$tIII. Héraclius, Hamlet and Genealogy --$tIV. Zembla - "How Farce and Epic Get a Jumbled Race" --$tV. Hamlet Unrestored: Sémiramis and the Royal Tomb --$tVI. Classical Affinities I : A Modern Aeneas --$tVII. Classical affinities II: An Ancient Nisus --$tVIII. The Browning Version and Contemporary Reality --$tIX. Corn, Cuckoldry, and the Amazonian Chin --$tX. Toile d'Eliot or Combinational Delight --$tXI. Phoenician Metamorphoses: Myth and Reality --$tXII. Varia - Selenography, Kinbote/Botkin, Glaucus, Fénélon --$tXIII. Murderous Intrigues --$tXIV. Tragedy and the Stagyrite --$tXV. Dramatic Poetry, Regicide, and Poetic Drama --$tXVI. Germanitas and Les Germains --$tXVII. Deus in Machina --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aRobin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics, and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930's with his young son and Jewish wife, Eliot's passivism must have seemed to him the very antithesis of survival. The enigmatic Pale Fire and its surface triviality suggested that there could be self-consistent logic within the obvious commentary of Charles Kinbote and John Shade's poem. Davies places this work in its vast European context, forming a bridge between Russian and European literature which will be appreciated by scholars of both. 410 0$aStudies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history. 606 $aClassicism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aClassicism in literature. 676 $a891.7342 700 $aDavies$b Robin H$01031285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457420903321 996 $aThe European Nabokov web, classicism and T.S. Eliot$92448581 997 $aUNINA