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1 online resource (431 pages) |
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Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Breaking the code: Nabokov and the art of short fiction; Yuri Leving; A PRIMARY TEXT: Heart; "Signs and Symbols"; Vladimir Nabokov; FORUM: High Pressure; Psychosis, performance, schizophrenia, literature; Hal Ackerman, Murray Biggs, John N. Crossley, Wayne Goodman, Yuri Leving, and Frederick White; CRITICISM; Part One: Bone Structure; Frameworks; Vladimir Nabokov's correspondence with The New Yorker regarding "Signs and Symbols," 1946-8; Olga Voronina; Consulting the oracle; Michael Wood; Part Two: Vascular System; Signs; Arbitrary signs and symbols. |
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Alexander N. DrescherThe patterns of doom; Brian Quinn; Ways of knowing in "Signs and Symbols"; Terry J. Martin; A funny thing about "Signs and Symbols"; John B. Lane; Names; Yuri Leving; Part Three: Muscles of the Story; Objects; Five known jars; Carol M. Dole; Five missing jars; Gennady Barabtarlo; The last jar; Joanna Trzeciak; Trees and birds; Larry R. Andrews; Photographs; Maria-Ruxanda Bontila; Cards; Pekka Tammi; Telephone; Andrés Romero Jódar; Part Four: Nervous System; The importance of reader response; Paul J. Rosenzweig; The Jewish quest; Yuri Leving; Symbols. |
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Signs of reference, symbols of designGeoffrey Green; Sacred dangers: Nabokov's distorted reflection; David Field; Numbers; The mysticism of circle; Mary Tookey; The semiotics of zero; Meghan Vicks; Part Five: Dissection; Web of contexts; "Signs and Symbols" in and out of contexts; Leona Toker; "Breaking the News" and "Signs and Symbols": silentology; Joanna Trzeciak; Pnin and "Signs and Symbols": narrative entrapment; David H. Richter; Pnin and "Signs and Symbols": narrative strategies; William Carroll; Pale Fire and "Signs and Symbols"; Vladimir Mylnikov; Part Six: DNA Testing. |
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Cracking the codeThe signs and symbols in Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols"; Alexander Dolinin; The castling problem in "Signs and Symbols"; Yuri Leving; Reading madly; Irving Malin; Deciphering "Signs and Symbols"; Larry R. Andrews; Decoding "Signs and Symbols"; John V. Hagopian; The referential mania: an attempt of the deconstructivist reading; Álvaro Garrido Moreno; A referential reading of Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols"; Charles W. Mignon; An Afterword; John Banville; Endnotes; Alternative tables of contents; Credits; Bibliography; Index. |
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Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokovs shortest short stories, Signs and Symbols, has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote. It has been called one of the greatest short stories ever written and a triumph of economy and force, minute realism and shimmering mystery (Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years). Part and parcel of a classical short fiction genre, Nabokovs Signs and Symbolsone of his last experiments in short prosestrikes with lexical density and contains a surprising structural element: what the wri. |
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Short story.
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Short story. |
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Literature -- Aesthetics.
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Literature -- Aesthetics. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Banville, John.
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Print version: Leving, Yuri. Anatomy of a Short Story : Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, Signs and Symbols. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2012 9781441142634 |
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9781441186287 (electronic book) |
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144118628X (electronic book) |
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