Nabokov S Canon

Author : Marijeta Bozovic
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810133167

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Nabokov's Canon by Marijeta Bozovic Pdf

Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late English language novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered relatively unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful study, these key texts reveal Nabokov's ambitions to reimagine a canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a central, rather than marginal, strain. Nabokov's scholarly work, translations, and lectures on literature bear resemblance to New Critical canon reformations; however, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to legitimize his own literary practice. The new angles and theoretical framework offered by Nabokov's Canon help us to understand why Nabokov's provocative monuments remain powerful source texts for several generations of diverse international writers, as well as richly productive material for visual, cinematic, musical, and other artistic adaptations.

Author : Marijeta Bozovic
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810133148

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Nabokov's Canon by Marijeta Bozovic Pdf

Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late English language novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered relatively unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful study, these key texts reveal Nabokov's ambitions to reimagine a canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a central, rather than marginal, strain. Nabokov's scholarly work, translations, and lectures on literature bear resemblance to New Critical canon reformations; however, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to legitimize his own literary practice. The new angles and theoretical framework offered by Nabokov's Canon help us to understand why Nabokov's provocative monuments remain powerful source texts for several generations of diverse international writers, as well as richly productive material for visual, cinematic, musical, and other artistic adaptations.

Author : Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780679726098

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Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.

Author : Yuri Leving
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773589681

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Shades of Laura by Yuri Leving Pdf

Shortly before Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions that the draft for his last novel, The Original of Laura, be destroyed. But in 2008 Dmitri Nabokov, the writer's only child and sole surviving heir, contravened his father's wishes. Formed from novelistic fragments that had been hidden from the public eye for three decades, The Original of Laura is a construction based on the conjecture of the Nabokov estate, publishers, and scholars. Shades of Laura returns to the "scene of the crime," elucidating the process of publishing Nabokov's unfinished novel from its conception - the reproduction of 138 handwritten index cards - to the simultaneous publication of translations of the final text in several languages. The essays in this collection investigate the event of publication and reconstitute the book's critical reception, reproducing a selection of some of the most salient reviews. Critics condemned Dmitri's choice, but as contributors to this volume attest, there are many more "shades" and "nuances" to his decision. The book also endeavours to allow readers to understand and evaluate an incomplete novel; contributors analyze its plot, structure, imagery, and motifs. Published after prolonged public debate, Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura was dubbed "the most eagerly awaited literary novel of this fledgling century." Covering the publication from a broad spectrum of perspectives, this collection reassesses the Nabokov canon and the roots of his literary prestige. Contributors include Paul Ardoin (Florida State University), Gennady Barabtarlo (University of Missouri), Brian Boyd (University of Auckland), Marijeta Bozovic (Colgate University), Maurice Couturier (University of Nice), Lara Delage-Toriel (Strasbourg University), Galya Diment (University of Washington), Leland de la Durantaye (Claremont McKenna College), Michael Juliar (Private collector), Eric Naiman (University of California, Berkeley), Ellen Pifer (University of Delaware), Anna Raffetto (Adelphi Publishing House, Milan), Michael Rodgers (University of Strathclyde), Rien Verhoef (Leiden University), Olga Voronina (Bard College), Tadashi Wakashima (Kyoto University), Michael Wood (Princeton University), and Barbara Wyllie (Slavonic and East European Review).

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307788078

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Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.

Author : J?rgen Bodenstein
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9785881083526

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The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose by J?rgen Bodenstein Pdf

Author : Gavriel Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:654491896

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Delicate Markers by Gavriel Shapiro Pdf

Even though centering on one work from Nabokov's Russian canon, Shapiro demonstrates the complexity of interartistic and cross-cultural ties in the writer's entire oeuvre, which became especially apparent in his "American years."

Author : Marie Bouchet,Julie Loison-Charles,Isabelle Poulin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030454067

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The Five Senses in Nabokov's Works by Marie Bouchet,Julie Loison-Charles,Isabelle Poulin Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on a subject largely neglected in Nabokovian criticism—the importance and significance of the five senses in Vladimir Nabokov’s work, poetics, politics and aesthetics. This text analyzes the crucial role of the author’s synesthesia and multilingualism in relation to the five senses, as well as the sensual and erotic dimensions of sensoriality in his works. Each chapter provides a highly focused and sometimes provocative approach to the unique role that sensory perceptions play in the shaping and narrating of Nabokov’s memories and in his creative process.

Author : Julie Loison-Charles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350243309

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Vladimir Nabokov as an Author-Translator by Julie Loison-Charles Pdf

Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and languages: Russian, English and French. In particular, Julie Loison-Charles focusses on Nabokov's dual nature as both an author and a translator, and the ways in which translation permeates his fictional writing from his very first Russian works to his last novels in English. Although self-translation has received a lot of attention in Nabokov criticism, this book considers his work as an author-translator, drawing particular attention to his often underappreciated and underestimated, but no less crucial, third language; French. Looking at Nabokov's encounters with pseudotranslation, Julie Loison-Charles demonstrates the influence this had on his practice as both a translator and a writer, arguing that this experience was crucial to his ability to create bridges between the literary traditions of Europe, Russia and America. The book also triangulates his practice and theory of translation for Onegin with those of Chateaubriand and Venuti to illuminate Nabokov's transnational vision of literature and his ethics of translation before presenting a robust case for reconsidering his collaborative translations in French as mediated self-translations.

Author : Julian W. Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Author : Barbara Wyllie
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861897282

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Vladimir Nabokov by Barbara Wyllie Pdf

Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is celebrated as one of the most distinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century. In Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of the life and works of the writer, from his childhood and earliest stories in pre-revolutionary Russia, to The Original of Laura—a novel written almost entirely on index cards published for the first time in 2009, perhaps against Nabokov’s wishes. This literary biography investigates the author’s poetry and prose, in both Russian and English, and examines the relationship between Nabokov’s extraordinary erudition and the themes that recur throughout his works. His expertise as a specialist in butterflies complemented his wide knowledge of Russian and Western European culture, philosophy, and history, and informed the themes of transformation and transcendence that dominate his work. Wyllie traces his lifelong preoccupations with time, memory, and mortality across both his Russian and English works, and she illuminates his distinctive through detailed analysis of his major novels. Wyllie assesses his poetry and prose style alongside Nabokov’s own autobiography, letters, and critical writings—as well as the only recently-published The Original of Laura—in order to create a complete and updated picture of the writer in the context of his works. Vladimir Nabokov presents a fascinating portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most eclectic, prolific, and controversial authors. It is an essential read for fans of Nabokov and scholars of twentieth century English and Russian literature.

Author : David M. Bethea,Siggy Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107519594

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Vladimir Nabokov in Context by David M. Bethea,Siggy Frank Pdf

Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in Context maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures and ideologies of his itinerant life which shaped the production and reception of his work. Concise and lively essays by leading scholars reveal a complex relationship of mutual influence between Nabokov's work and his environment. Appealing to a wide community of literary scholars this timely companion to Nabokov's writing offers new insights and approaches to one of the most important, and yet most elusive writers of modern literature.

Author : Ben Blatt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781501105388

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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve by Ben Blatt Pdf

"Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.