LEADER 04558nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910789849403321 005 20230725030954.0 010 $a0-8014-6023-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460234 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079091 035 $a(OCoLC)726824223 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457587 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486064 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11325762 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486064 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429672 035 $a(PQKB)11591300 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137966 035 $a(OCoLC)966825640 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51789 035 $a(DE-B1597)478322 035 $a(OCoLC)979910334 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457587 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079091 100 $a20091118d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNabokov, perversely$b[electronic resource] /$fEric Naiman 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (315 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-4820-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPart One: Sexual Orientation --$tChapter 1. A Filthy Look at Shakespeare's Lolita --$tChapter 2. Art as Afterglow (Bend Sinister) --$tChapter 3. Perversion in Pnin --$tChapter 4. Hermophobia (On Sexual Orientation and Reading Nabokov) --$tPart Two: Setting Nabokov Straight --$tChapter 5. Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran Nabokov and Nafisi --$tChapter 6. Lolita in the Real World --$tChapter 7. Blackwell's Paradox and Fyodor's Gift: A Kinder and Gentler Nabokov --$tPart Three: Reading Preposterously --$tChapter 8. Litland The Allegorical Poetics of The Defense --$tChapter 9. The Costs of Character: The Maiming of the Narrator in "A Guide to Berlin" --$tChapter 10. The Meaning of "Life": Nabokov in Code ( King, Queen, Knave and Ada) --$tEpilogue. What If Nabokov Had Written "The Double": Reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov --$tAcknowledgments --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the pleasures and perils to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's insistence on bringing the issue of art's essential perversity to the fore. Nabokov's fiction is notorious for the interpretive panic it occasions in its readers, the sense that no matter how hard he or she tries, the reader has not gotten Nabokov "right." At the same time, the fictions abound with characters who might be labeled perverts, and questions of sexuality lurk everywhere. Naiman argues that the sexual and the interpretive are so bound together in Nabokov's stories and novels that the reader confronts the fear that there is no stable line between good reading and overreading, and that reading Nabokov well is beset by the exhilaration and performance anxiety more frequently associated with questions of sexuality than of literature. Nabokov's fictions pervert their readers, obligingly training them to twist and turn the text in order to puzzle out its meanings, so that they become not better people but closer readers, assuming all the impudence and potential for shame that sexually oriented close-looking entails. In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and charts the enhanced attention to the connection between sex and metafiction in works translated from the Russian. He also takes on books by other authors-such as Reading Lolita in Tehran-that misguidedly incorporate Nabokov's writing within frameworks of moral usefulness. In a final, extraordinary chapter, Naiman reads Dostoevsky's The Double with Nabokov-trained eyes, making clear the power a strong writer can exert on readers. 606 $aParaphilias in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aParaphilias in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aNaiman$b Eric$f1958-$0870803 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789849403321 996 $aNabokov, perversely$93862020 997 $aUNINA