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1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index. |
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pnin: The Quest That Overrides the Goal -- 3. Mary: "Without Any Passport" -- 4. King, Queen, Knave, or Lust under the Linden -- 5. The Defense: Secret Asymmetries -- 6. Glory: "Good Example of How Metaphysics Can Fool You" -- 7. Laughter in the Dark: Guinea Pigs and Galley Slaves -- 8 . Invitation to a Beheading: "Nameless Existence, Intangible Substance" -- 9. The Gift: Models of Infinity -- 10. Bend Sinister: The "Inner" Problem -- 11. "Reader! Bruder!": Broodings on the Rhetoric of Lolita -- 12 . Conclusion -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index. |
| Summary |
Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov's concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov's and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker's book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject's own favored devices. |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
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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Fiction in English American writers Nabokov, Vladimir, 1899-1977 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Toker, Leona. Nabokov. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989 (OCoLC)18463539 |
| ISBN |
1501707043 (electronic book) |
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9781501707049 (electronic book) |
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9781501707223 |
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1501707221 |
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0801422116 |
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9780801422119 |
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