Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman
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| Autore: |
Norman Will <1978-, >
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| Titolo: |
Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social history in literature |
| Time in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 manipul |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nabokov, history and the texture of time |
| ISBN: | 1-283-64379-0 |
| 0-203-10806-X | |
| 1-136-26436-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785989503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature