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Author White, Duncan, 1979- author.

Title Nabokov and his books : between late modernism and the literary marketplace / Duncan White
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages)
Series Oxford English monographs
Oxford English monographs.
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
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Summary Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional writer; to explore how he balanced his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a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
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Subject Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
SUBJECT Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Novelists -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Modernism (Literature)
Novelists
USA
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191057618
0191057614
9780191801051
0191801054