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Nabokov at the Limits
Author | : Lisa Zunshine |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781135658779 |
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The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.
Nabokov at the Limits
Author | : Lisa Zunshine |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0815328958 |
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The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.
Education and the Limits of Reason
Author | : Peter Roberts,Herner Saeverot |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781135050603 |
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In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful. Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, the authors demonstrate that literature can allow us to see how reason is understood and expressed, contested and compromised – by distinctive individuals, under particular circumstances, in complex and varied relations with others. Novels, plays and short stories can take us into the workings of a rational or irrational mind and show how the inner world of cognitive activity is shaped by external events. Perhaps most importantly, literature can prompt us to ask searching questions of ourselves; it can unsettle and disturb, and in so doing can make an important contribution to our educational formation. An original and thought provoking work, Education and the Limits of Reason offers a fresh perspective on classic texts by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, and encourages readers to reconsider conventional views of teaching and learning. This book will appeal to a wide range of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, literature and philosophy.
The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord
Author | : Gavriel Shapiro |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472119189 |
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A careful and intimate study on the ways Nabokov’s world perception and fictional universe were influenced by his father
Vladimir Nabokov
Author | : Brian Boyd |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781400884025 |
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This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of Lolita. In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the United States. This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years and Russian worlds, prerevolutionary and émigré. In the course of his ten years' work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov's trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov's family and scores of his friends and associates. For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov's life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov's works, published and unpublished. Boyd investigates Nabokov's relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy and his innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov's life and the themes and subjects of his art.
Vladimir Nabokov
Author | : Paul Duncan Morris |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2011-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781442613324 |
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Morris re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source of his distinctive authorial - lyric - voice.
The Nickel Was for the Movies
Author | : Gavriel Moses |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520341227 |
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The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human perception been engaged in such an all-encompassing way by a single art form. In this ambitious investigation of a little-studied narrative genre, Gavriel Moses defines and explores "the film novel," a literary text in which cinema provides the thematic, formal, psychological, and philosophical center. Through close readings of works by the major representatives of the genre—Pirandello, Nabokov, Isherwood, West, Fitzgerald, Moravia, Percy, Puig—Moses develops a suggestive theory of novels that use literature to investigate the central role that film has acquired in human experience. These novels, because of their fascination with filmmaker and spectator alike, and because they anticipate current views of the questions of cinema, remain a tangible presence within the repertoire of literary modernism. Offering insightful discussions of Laughter in the Dark, Lancelot, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and other film novels, Moses shows the depth of the exchange between literature and cinema and illustrates the extent to which the way we tell stories with words has been affected by the movies. His book will be of wide interest to literary scholars, film historians, and students of cinema and the novel.
Stalking Nabokov
Author | : Brian Boyd |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231158572 |
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In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd also offers new ways of reading Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.