| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 manipulati |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast |
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Social history in literature.
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Time in literature.
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Social history in literature
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Time in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136264368 |
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1136264361 |
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