The European Nabokov Web, Classicism and T.S. Eliot / / Robin H. Davies.
Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov’s Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot’s philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot’s later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics, and religion. After Nabo...
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Davies, Robin H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The European Nabokov Web, Classicism and T.S. Eliot / Robin H. Davies. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (235 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Lingua Franca and Topsy-turvical Coincidence -- II. In Search of Horace and a Web of Sense -- III. Héraclius, Hamlet and Genealogy -- IV. Zembla - “How Farce and Epic Get a Jumbled Race” -- V. Hamlet Unrestored: Sémiramis and the Royal Tomb -- VI. Classical Affinities I : A Modern Aeneas -- VII. Classical affinities II: An Ancient Nisus -- VIII. The Browning Version and Contemporary Reality -- IX. Corn, Cuckoldry, and the Amazonian Chin -- X. Toile d’Eliot or Combinational Delight -- XI. Phoenician Metamorphoses: Myth and Reality -- XII. Varia - Selenography, Kinbote/Botkin, Glaucus, Fénélon -- XIII. Murderous Intrigues -- XIV. Tragedy and the Stagyrite -- XV. Dramatic Poetry, Regicide, and Poetic Drama -- XVI. Germanitas and Les Germains -- XVII. Deus in Machina -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov’s Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot’s philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot’s later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics, and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930s with his young son and Jewish wife, Eliot’s passivism must have seemed to him the very antithesis of survival. The enigmatic Pale Fire and its surface triviality suggested that there could be self-consistent logic within the obvious commentary of Charles Kinbote and John Shade’s poem. Davies places this work in its vast European context, forming a bridge between Russian and European literature which will be appreciated by scholars of both. 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 01. Dez 2022) Classicism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013 9783111024080 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015 9783110688146 print 9781936235650 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618111319 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618111319 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781618111319/original |
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