Nabokov and the Novel / / Ellen Pifer.
Ellen Pifer challenges the widely held assumption that Nabokov is a writer more interested in literary games than in living human beings. She demonstrates how Nabokov arranges the details of his fiction to explore human psychology and moral truth, and she argues her case with style. Focusing on the...
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Pifer, Ellen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Nabokov and the Novel / Ellen Pifer. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1980 1 online resource (197 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- CHAPTER I. The Question of Character -- CHAPTER II. Consciousness, Real Life, and Fairytale Freedom: King, Queen, Knave -- CHAPTER III. Breaking the Law of Averages: Invitation to a Beheading -- CHAPTER IV. Putting Two and One Together: Bend Sinister -- CHAPTER V. Singularity and the Double’s Pale Ghost: From Despair to Pale Fire -- CHAPTER VI. The Question of Realism -- CHAPTER VII. Heaven, Hell, and the Realm of Art: Adas Dark Paradise -- CHAPTER VIII. On the Dark Side of Aesthetic Bliss: Nabokov's Humanism -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Ellen Pifer challenges the widely held assumption that Nabokov is a writer more interested in literary games than in living human beings. She demonstrates how Nabokov arranges the details of his fiction to explore human psychology and moral truth, and she argues her case with style. Focusing on the most highly wrought and aesthetically self-conscious of Nabokov's novels, Pifer shows how he deploys artifice to bring into bold relief what is real. In her chapter on King, Queen, Knave she reveals Nabokov's radical distinction between genuine and simulated human existence. She shows how, in Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister, he contrasts "grotesque design" of collective existence with the individul's radiant internal life. In Despair, Lolita, and Pale Fire Nabokov's parody of the double illuminates the unique source of human consciousness. In Ada, as in the earlier Laughter in the Dark, the inhuman nature of aesthetic bliss qualifies its delights. Making clear the moral perception of reality that lies behind Nabokov's artistic strategies, Pifer offers a new assessment of Nabokov's fiction and of his contribution to the tradition of the novel. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Englische Literatur Amerikas. Roman. LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Literature eBook Package 9783110353501 ZDB-23-HLI Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674421479 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674421486 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674421486 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674421486.jpg |
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