Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
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Oxford English monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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Contents |
Cover ; Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Permissions; A Note on the Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Coarse Print, Durable Pigments; LASCAUX I & II; BIBLIOPOETICS; THE FALSE QUIXOTE; 1: Contexts; An Unseasonable Form; Late Modernism; Nabokov as Late Modernist; Nabokov and the Cold War; The Literary Marketplace; 2: Inspiration; Pearl Harbor and Ivory Tower; The Creative Writer; Pushkin, Inspiration, and Russian Literary Aesthetics; Symbolism and Acmeism; Monism, Dualism, and Liberalism |
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Woodbridge, Bergson, AlexanderDeterminism; The Inspired Book; Iconic Space; 3: Reading; Autonomy and the Market; Good Reading; Spiral Form and Modernism; Spatial Form and Late Modernism; Material Contingency; Lolita and the American Marketplace; Pale Fire; Ada; 4: Publication; NabokovÅ› Publishers; New Directions; Paratexts and Aesthetics; Forewords; Blurbs; Cover Art; Covering Lolita; 5: Legacy; Celebrity; Posterity; The Collected Edition; Biography and Criticism; Andrew Field; Deaths of the Author; Posthumous Publication; Works Cited; WORKS BY NABOKOV; OTHER WORKS; Index |
Summary |
Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional writer; to explore how he balanced his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a booming American literary marketplace; and to reconceptualise the way we think about one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
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SUBJECT |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Novelists -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Novelists
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USA
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191057618 |
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0191057614 |
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9780191801051 |
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0191801054 |
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