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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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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Table of Contents:
- 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