Nabokov's World: Volume 2: Reading Nabokov by Arnold McMillin (English) Hardcove

Description: Nabokov's World by Arnold McMillin, P. Meyer Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nabokovs complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume and its companion have been compiled to reflect something of the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Offering insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of this two-part study, includes the work of 15 eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading. Notes DAVID BELLOS Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University BRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of Auckland NEIL CORNWELL Professor Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol JOHN BURT-FOSTER JR Professor of English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia CATRIONA KELLY Reader in Russian New College, Oxford MARIA MALIKOVA Post-Graduate Student, The Institute of Russian Literature, St Petersburg MICHAEL MEYLAC Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Antillas and French Guyana, Cayenne DALE E. PETERSON Professor of English and Russian, Amherst College ELLEN PIFER Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Delaware VERA PROSKURINA Visiting Professor, Cornell University JOHN QUINN Consultant Physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians SUSAN ELIZABETH SWEENEY Associate Professor of English, Holy Cross College RACHEL TROUSDALE Graduate Student, Yale University MICHAEL WOOD Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton Author Biography JANE GRAYSON is Lecturer in Russian language and literature at SSEES, University College London. Her publications include Nabokov Translated: A Comparison of Nabokovs Russian and English Prose, Nikolay Gogol: Text and Context (co-edited with Faith Wigzell,) Ideology in Russian Literature (co-edited with Richard Freeborn) and numerous articles on twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature. - ARNOLD MCMILLIN, Professor of Russian Literature at SSEES, University College London has written extensively on Belarusian and Russian language and literature. His latest monograph is Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 60s: Release and Renewal. - PRISCILLA MEYER is Professor of Russian at Wesleyan University and the author of Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokovs Pale Fire and other articles on Nabokov. Table of Contents Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: Reading Nabokov; J.Grayson Nabokov: A Centennial Toast; B.Boyd V.V. Nabokov and V.D. Nabokov: His Fathers Voice; M.Malikova Nabokovs Exegi Monumentum : Immortality in Quotation Marks (Nabokov, Pushkin and Mikhail Gershenzon); V.Proskurina Intertextuality and (Meta)poesis: Some Enigmas of Nabokovs Seven Poems: M.Meylac White (K)Nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokovs Early Stories; D.E.Peterson Looking at Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art and the Ballets Russes; S.E.Sweeney Paintings, Governesses, and Publishing Scoundrels: Nabokov and Henry James; N.Cornwell Nabokov, Snobism, and Selfhood in Pnin; C.Kelly Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats; J.Burt-Foster, Jr Broken Dates: Proust, Nabokov and Modern Time; M.Wood Did She Have a Precursor?: Lolita and Edith Whartons The Children; E.Pifer How Did They Ever Make a Painting of Lolita?; J.D.Quin Transformations of Memory: Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Merrill; R.Trousdale The Real Hound: The Real Knight; P.Meyer VN/GP: Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Work of Georges Perec; D.Bellos Select Bibliography Index Review Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers. - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown Promotional Jane Grayson is the author of "Nabokov Translated: A Comparison of Nabokovs Russian and English Prose". Arnold McMillin is the author of "Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 60s: Release and Renewal". Priscilla Meyer is the author of "Find out What the Sailor has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokovs "Pale Fire"". Review Quote "...high quality of contributions not only ensure its utility but make it a pleasure to peruse as well."--Julian W. Connolly, Slavic Review Description for Bookstore Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this volume of a two-part study includes the work of 15 eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception, and suggestions for new ways of reading. Details ISBN0333964179 Short Title NABOKOVS WORLD V02 NABOKOVS WO Language English ISBN-10 0333964179 ISBN-13 9780333964170 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 813.54 Series Number 02 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by P. Meyer Place of Publication Basingstoke Edition 0002nd Edition Description 2001 Pages 241 Subtitle Volume 2: Reading Nabokov DOI 10.1604/9780333964170 AU Release Date 2001-12-18 NZ Release Date 2001-12-18 UK Release Date 2001-12-18 Author P. Meyer Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Series Studies in Russia and East Europe Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-12-18 Alternative 9781349664375 Illustrations XVII, 241 p. Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96927081;

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