Nabokov S Art Of Memory And European Modernism

Author : John Burt Foster, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400820894

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Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism by John Burt Foster, Jr. Pdf

Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with such early Russian novels as Mary, then treats his emerging art of memory from Laughter in the Dark to The Gift. After discussing the author's cultural repositioning in his first English novels, Foster turns to Nabokov's masterpiece as an artist of memory, the autobiography Speak, Memory, and ends with an epilogue on Pale Fire. As a cross-cultural overview of modernism, this book examines how Nabokov navigated among Proust and Bergson, Freud and Mann, and Joyce and Eliot. It also explores his response to Baudelaire and Nietzsche as theorists of modernity, and his sense of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Pushkin as modernist precursors. As an approach to Nabokov, the book reflects the heightened importance of autobiography in current literary study. Other critical issues addressed include Bakhtin's theory of intertextuality, deconstructive views of memory, Benjamin's modernism of memory, and Nabokov's assumptions about modernism as a concept.

Author : John Burt Foster, JR.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1400815916

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Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism by John Burt Foster, JR. Pdf

Author : Neil Cornwell,University Prof of Russian and Comparative Literature Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780746308684

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Vladimir Nabokov by Neil Cornwell,University Prof of Russian and Comparative Literature Neil Cornwell Pdf

Vladimir Nabokov's extraordinary literary career, as a master of Russian and English prose, is unique. Acclaimed in the limited Russian emigre world, under the name of Sirin, Nabokov switched to writing in English and settled in America, a refugee from Hitler's Europe. Exile, memory, lost love and the magic of childhood are among his themes. Neil Cornwell's study, published for the Nabokov centenary, examines five of Nabokov's major novels, plus his short stories and critical writings, situating his work against the ever-expanding mass of VN scholarship, and noting his cultural debt to Russia, Europe, America and the British Isles.

Author : hana pichova
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Exile (Punishment) in literature
ISBN : 0809389428

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the art of memory in exile vladimir nabokov & milan kundera by hana pichova Pdf

In their virtuoso displays of literary talent, Nabokov and Kundera showcase the strategies that allow their protagonists to succeed as emigres: a creative fusing of past and present through the prism of the imagination.".

Author : Doug Battersby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192863331

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Troubling Late Modernism by Doug Battersby Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with today. Troubling Late Modernism tracks how those techniques have been perversely reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period. Chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride reveal how these writers at once exploit and extend modernist forms of narration to cultivate disquieting affective attachments to protagonists compelled by violent or exploitative sexual desires. By interrogating the expressive power and ethical liabilities of modes of writing that give us intimate access to characters' inner lives, late modernism poses fundamental philosophical questions about emotion and its inseparability from knowledge and ethical deliberation. Whilst other historians of the novel have characterized late modernism's formal innovations as ethically and politically edifying, Troubling Late Modernism highlights their more disquieting potential for lending sympathy and profundity to sentiments deemed inadmissible in our everyday lives. Charting late modernism's characteristic fusion of aesthetic difficulty with emotional and ethical provocation demands an approach attuned to the experience of reading these disturbingly erotic narratives. In dialogue with recent debates about critical method, Troubling Late Modernism presents a new way of closely reading prose fiction that brings together the lessons of formalism and affect theory.

Author : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135658779

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Nabokov at the Limits by Lisa Zunshine Pdf

The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.

Author : Will Norman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415539630

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Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time by Will Norman Pdf

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 manipulations and distortions function as a defensive dialectic against history, an attempt to salvage fiction for autonomous aesthetics. Tracing Nabokov's understanding of the relationship between history and aesthetics from nineteenth-century Russia through European modernism to the postwar American academy, the book offers detailed contextualized readings of Nabokov's major writings, exploring the tensions, fissures, and failures in Nabokov's attempts to assert aesthetic control over historical time. In reading his response to the rise of totalitarianism, the Holocaust, and Cold War, Norman redresses the commonly-expressed admiration for Nabokov's heroic resistance to history by suggesting the ethical, aesthetic, and political costs of reading and writing in its denial. This book offers a rethinking of Nabokov's location in literary history, the ideological impulses which inform his fiction, and the importance of temporal aesthetics in negotiating the matrices of modernism.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1645 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480831

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.

Author : Gavriel Shapiro
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801439094

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Nabokov at Cornell by Gavriel Shapiro Pdf

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Author : Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136601569

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The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir E. Alexandrov Pdf

First published in 1995. This companion constitutes a virtual encyclopaedia of Nabokov, and occupies a unique niche in scholarship about him. Articles on individual works by Nabokov, including his short stories and poetry, provide a brief survey of critical reactions and detailed analyses from diverse vantage points. For anyone interested in Nabokov, from scholars to readers who love his works, this is an ideal guide. Its chronology of Nabokov's life and works, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and a detailed index make it easy to find reliable information any aspect of Nabokov's rich legacy.

Author : Wayne Jeffrey Froman,John Burt Foster
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0739124099

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Dramas of Culture by Wayne Jeffrey Froman,John Burt Foster Pdf

Dramas of Culture is shaped by twelve carefully interwoven interdisciplinary essays on the role of performance as inscribed within contemporary cultural debate. Part One addresses the recent cultural turn in scholarship and public affairs and offers three provocative discussions of its genealogy, goals, and shortcomings. Underpinning these arguments are the key dramatic elements of language, performativity, and spectacle. Part Two stresses the constitutive roles of scene and setting, melodrama, and tragic conflict for literary theory, political thought, and dialectical philosophy, each with direct bearings on contemporary cultural studies. Parts Three and Four turn to the intellectual and cultural significance of specific plays in the Western repertoire. Part Three examines several major efforts to rethink the nature of tragedy as a dramatic genre, emphasizing its capacity to reveal the fragility and provisionality of culture, while Part Four focuses on prominent examples of the shifting relations among drama, history, and processes of cultural change.

Author : Paul Duncan Morris
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442613324

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Vladimir Nabokov by Paul Duncan Morris Pdf

Morris re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source of his distinctive authorial - lyric - voice.

Author : Julian W. Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521632838

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Nabokov and His Fiction by Julian W. Connolly Pdf

In this 1999 collection, eleven leading scholars offer original essays on Nabokov and his fiction.

Author : José Vergara,Sara Karpukhin
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781943208517

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Reimagining Nabokov by José Vergara,Sara Karpukhin Pdf

In Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in technology, translation and archival studies, and new interpretative models have helped them to address urgent questions of power, authority, and identity. Practical and insightful, this volume features exciting methods through which to reimagine the literature classroom as one of shared agency between students, instructors, and the authors they read together. “It is both timely and refreshing to have an influx of teacher-scholars who engage Nabokov from a variety of perspectives... this volume does justice to the breadth of Nabokov’s literary achievements, and it does so with both pedagogical creativity and scholarly integrity."—Dana Dragunoiu, Carleton University "[A] valuable study for any reader, teacher, scholar, or student of Nabokov. Amongst specific and urgent insights on the potential for digital methods, the relevance of Nabokov for students today, and how to reconcile issues of identity with an author who disavowed history and politics, are much wider and timeless questions of authorial control and the ability to access reality."—Anoushka Alexander-Rose, Nabokov Online Journal Reimagining Nabokov takes a holistic approach to the many stumbling blocks in teaching Nabokov today. Especially intriguing about this volume is that through its essays a fresh picture of Nabokov emerges, not as an authoritarian and paranoid world-creator (an image long entrenched in Nabokov scholarship), but as someone who is tentative, hopeful, socially conscious, compassionate, and traumatized by the experience of exile....Reimagining Nabokov models pedagogical concepts that can be applied to teaching any literary text with a social conscience.—Alisa Ballard Lin, Modern Language Review Contributions by Galya Diment, Tim Harte, Robyn Jensen, Sara Karpukhin, Yuri Leving, Roman Utkin, José Vergara, Meghan Vicks, Olga Voronina, Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, and Matthew Walker.

Author : Márta Pellérdi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443824798

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Nabokov's Palace by Márta Pellérdi Pdf

Nabokov’s distinguished and unique position in American literature has always been indisputable, but paradoxical. There has always been an element of foreignness in his writing. Nabokov’s Palace, however, aims to discover those sub-texts and inter-textual patterns embedded in Nabokov’s American novels which undeniably contribute towards making these works an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. Aware of this tradition, in some of his late novels Nabokov also provides a literary historical overview of particular themes, such as friendship, melancholy, madness and trance, as they surfaced in literary texts throughout the history of English and American literature. To Nabokov “aesthetic bliss” meant “a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.” Most of Nabokov’s American novels express—through different elaborate literary structures, themes, motifs and metaphors—these “other states of being” where the “fantastic recurrence” of literary situations and communion with dead poets and writers (Poe, Shakespeare, Hawthorne and Melville, among many others) becomes possible. The American “reality” that some readers miss in his writings (with the exception of Lolita) and the absence of which questions whether Nabokov truly belongs to the Anglo-American tradition, is clearly to be found in the “wayside murmur” of the allusive sub-texts. Nabokov’s Palace is thus recommended for scholars, students and devotees of Nabokov’s fiction who wish to make further discoveries in the distinct “otherworld” of Art in Nabokov’s American novels.