Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) : color illustrations |
Contents |
Nabokov and the two sister arts -- The 'mad pursuit' in Laughter in the dark -- The real life of Sebastian Knight : its colours and painting -- Pnin and the history of art -- Lolita and Aubrey Beardsley -- Pale fire zemblematically -- Leonardo and 'Spring in Fialta' / Gerad de Vries -- A shimmer of exact details : Ada's art gallery / D. Barton Johnson -- Ada and Bosch / Liana Ashenden -- Appendix I : Passages in Nabokov's novels, stories or autobiography referring or alluding to paintings -- Appendix II : Painters mentioned or obviously referred to in Nabokov's works |
Summary |
A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast |
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič -- Malerei. idsbb |
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Nabokov, Vladimir V. -- Malerei. idszbz |
Subject |
Painting in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Painting in literature
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Schilderkunst.
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Letterkunde.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Johnson, Donald B. (Donald Barton), 1933-2020
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Ashenden, Liana.
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LC no. |
2006401948 |
ISBN |
1423785231 |
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9781423785231 |
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9789048505463 |
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9048505461 |
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1280958170 |
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9781280958175 |
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9786610958177 |
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6610958173 |
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