Boyd Stalking Nabokov

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-53029-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Nabokov: The Writer's Life and the Life Writer
1. A Centennial Toast
2. A Biographer's Life
3. Who Is "My Nabokov"?
Nabokov's Manuscripts and Books
4. The Nabokov Biography and the Nabokov Archive
5. From the Nabokov Archive: Nabokov's Literary Legacy
Nabokov's Metaphysics
6. Retrospects and Prospect/s
7. Nabokov's Afterlife
Nabokov's Butterflies
8. Nabokov, Literature, Lepidoptera
9. Netting Nabokov: Review of Dieter E. Zimmer, A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths
Nabokov as Psychologist
10. The Psychological Work of Fictional Play
Nabokov and the Origins and Ends of Stories
11. Stacks of Stories, Stories of Stacks
Nabokov as Writer
12. Nabokov's Humor
13. Nabokov as Storyteller
14. Nabokov's Transition from Russian to English: Repudiation or Evolution?
Nabokov and Others
15. Nabokov, Pushkin, Shakespeare: Genius, Generosity, and Gratitude in The Gift and Pale Fire
16. Nabokov as Verse Translator: Introduction to Verses and Versions
17. Tolstoy and Nabokov
18. Nabokov and Machado de Assis
Nabokov Works
19. Speak, Memory: The Life and the Art
20. Speak, Memory: Nabokov, Mother, and Lovers: The Weave of the Magic Carpet (1999)
21. Lolita: Scene and Unseen
22. Even Homais Nods: Nabokov's Fallibility; Or, How to Revise Lolita
23. Literature, Pattern, Lolita; Or, Art, Literature, Science
24. "Pale Fire": Poem and Pattern
25. Ada: The Bog and the Garden; Or, Straw, Fluff, and Peat: Sources and Places in Ada
26. A Book Burner Recants: The Original of Laura
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland. His work on American, Brazilian, English, Greek, Irish, New Zealand, and Russian literature, from epics to comics, has appeared in seventeen languages and has won awards on four continents. He is the author of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, books on Pale Fire and Ada, and the enormous AdaOnline. He has edited Nabokov's English fiction, autobiography, butterfly writings, and verse translations and is now editing a collection of the author's letters to his wife. Also known for his evolutionary and cognitive work, he is the author of On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction and the forthcoming Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets and is coeditor of Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. He is currently working on a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper.