LEADER 02908oam 2200637I 450 001 9910785989503321 005 20230126205843.0 010 $a1-283-64379-0 010 $a0-203-10806-X 010 $a1-136-26436-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203108062 035 $a(CKB)2670000000259347 035 $a(EBL)1039265 035 $a(OCoLC)815653506 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000758303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11486959 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000758303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10789724 035 $a(PQKB)11116658 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1039265 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1039265 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611749 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL395629 035 $a(OCoLC)813932670 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133768 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000259347 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNabokov, history and the texture of time /$fWill Norman 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v19 225 0$aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v19 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-53963-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNabokov 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. 330 $aThis book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself - that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism - this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading his American work alongside the violent upheavals of twentieth-century ideological conflicts in Europe and the United States. This approach explores how the author's characteristic temporal manipul 410 0$aRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature 606 $aSocial history in literature 606 $aTime in literature 615 0$aSocial history in literature. 615 0$aTime in literature. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aNorman$b Will$f1978-,$01560300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785989503321 996 $aNabokov, history and the texture of time$93826177 997 $aUNINA