Larmour Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov's Prose

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-44775-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature

The prose writings of Vladimir Nabokov form one of the most intriguing oeuvres of the twentieth century. His novels, which include Despair, Lolita and Pale Fire, have been celebrated for their stylistic artistry, their formal complexity, and their unique treatment of themes of memory, exile, loss, and desire.
This collection of essays offers readings of several novels as well as discussions of Nabokov's exchange of views about literature with Edmund Wilson, and his place in the 1960s and contemporary popular culture.
The volume brings together a diverse group of Nabokovian readers, of widely divergent scholarly backgrounds, interests, and approaches. Together they shift the focus from the manipulative games of author and text to the restless and sometimes resistant reader, and suggest new ways of enjoying these endlessly fascinating texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larmour, David H. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents. Introduction: 'Collusion and Collision', David H. J. Larmour 1. The Artist and Ideology: Galya Diment, The Nabokov-Wilson Debate: Art versus Social and Moral Responsibility; Brian Walter, Two Organ-Grinders: Duality and Discontent in Bend Sinister 2. Discourses of Gender and Sexuality: Galina Rylkova, Okrylyonnyy Soglyadatay - The Winged Eavesdropper: Nabokov and Kuzmin; David H. J. Larmour, Getting One Past the Goalkeeper: Sports and Games in Glory; Paul Allen Miller, The Crewcut as Homoerotic Discourse in Nabokov's Pale Fire 3. Lolita: Tony Moore, Seeing through Humbert: Focussing on the Feminist Sympathy in Lolita; Elizabeth Patnoe, Discourse, Ideology, and Hegemony: The Double Drama in and around Lolita 4. Cultural Contacts: D. Barton Johnson, Nabokov and the Sixties; Suellen Stringer-Hye, Vladmir Nabokov and Popular Culture.

Über Autor(innen)

David Larmour is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University. He co-edited Russian Literature and the Classics (1996) and since 1997 has been one of the editors of the journal Intertexts.