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Nabokov's Canon
Bozovic, Marijeta. Ed(S): Morson, Gary Saul
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Paperback. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2011. Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 2. Weight in Grams: 346.
Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered relatively unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful study, these key texts reveal Nabokov's ambitions to reimagine a canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a central, rather than marginal, strain. Nabokov's scholarly work, translations, and lectures on literature bear resemblance to New Critical canon reformations; however, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to ... Read more
Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered relatively unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful study, these key texts reveal Nabokov's ambitions to reimagine a canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a central, rather than marginal, strain. Nabokov's scholarly work, translations, and lectures on literature bear resemblance to New Critical canon reformations; however, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810133143
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V9780810133143
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About Bozovic, Marijeta. Ed(S): Morson, Gary Saul
Marijeta Bozovic is an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University, USA.
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