LEADER 04385nam 2200397 450 001 9910819793803321 005 20190801181857.0 010 $a1-4985-0331-4 035 $a(CKB)4340000000205310 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5060107 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000205310 100 $a20170627h20172017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aNabokov's women $ethe silent sisterhood of textual nomads /$f[edited by] Elena Rakhimova-Sommers 210 1$aLanham, MD :$cLexington Books,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (275 pages) 311 08$a1-4985-0330-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gIntroduction:$tNabokov's passport wanderer : a study of Nabokov's woman /$rElena Rakhimova-Sommers --$gPart I: Fugitive souls.$tVia Dolores : the passage of the feminine as contraband in Nabokov's fiction /$rSofia Ahlberg ;$tQueen sacrifice : the feminine figure of power and Nabokav's strategy of loss /$rAlisa Zhulina ;$tA small mad hope : Pale fire, hazel, and Oedipal disaster /$rMatthew Roth ;$tNabokov's mermaid : "Spring in Fialta" /$rElena Rakhimova-Sommers --$gPart II: Figments of desire.$tJealousy guarded secrets : Nabokov's women and the vicissitudes of desire /$rDavid Rampton ;$tThe text(ure) of desire : the garments and ornaments of Nabokov's maidens /$rMarie Bouchet ; Reading the Woman on the train /$rDavid H. J. Larmour --$gPart III: In search of a (lost) voice.$tHearing the female voice in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction /$rJulian W. Connolly ;$t"The fascination of pebbles" : fictional lives of Ve?ra Nabokov /$rOlga Voronima ;$tNabokov in an evening gown /$rSusan Elizabeth Sweeney ;$tSpeak, mademoiselle : Nabokov's authorial posture revisited /$rLara Delage-Toriel. 330 $aNabokov's Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov's relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov's women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders, the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov's woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male protagonist's narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the ?Works Cited? register of the male narrator's personal life. As a result, Nabokov's texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling privileges. This volume explores the ?residency status? of Nabokov's silent nomads?his fleeting lovers, witches, muses, mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power dynamic of the writer's narrative of male desire, they ponder?are these female characters directionless wanderers or covert operatives in the terrain of Nabokov's text? Whereas each essay addresses a different aspect of Nabokov's artistic relationship with the feminine, together they explore the politics of representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter 4,'Nabokov's Mermaid:'Spring in Fialta'' by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies. 606 $aWomen in literature 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a891.73/42 702 $aRakhimova-Sommers$b Elena 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819793803321 996 $aNabokov's women$94081831 997 $aUNINA