Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism /

Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism / / John Burt Foster.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Foster, John Burt,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1993]
©1993
Year of Publication:1993
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON CITATIONS
  • Part One: Points of Departure
  • CHAPTER 1. The European Nabokov, the Modernist Moment, and Cultural Biography
  • CHAPTER 2. The Self-Defined Origins of an Artist of Memory
  • CHAPTER 3. The Rejection of Anticipatory Memory
  • Part Two: Toward France
  • CHAPTER 4. Encountering French Modernism
  • CHAPTER 5. From the Personal to the Intertextual
  • CHAPTER 6. Narrative between Art and Memory
  • CHAPTER 7. Memory, Modernism, and the Fictive Autobiographies
  • Part Three: In English
  • CHAPTER 8. Cultural Mobility and British Modernism
  • CHAPTER 9. Autobiographical Images
  • CHAPTER 10. The Cultural Self-Consciousness of Speak, Memory
  • EPILOGUE: Proust over T. S. Eliot in Pale Fire (1962)
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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