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Vladimir Nabokov
Glynn, Dr. Michael, Ma, Md, Frcp, Fhea, Iltm
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Description for Vladimir Nabokov
Hardback. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.
Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403979858
SKU
V9781403979858
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99-15
About Glynn, Dr. Michael, Ma, Md, Frcp, Fhea, Iltm
MICHAEL GLYNN is Head of the English Department at the City College Plymouth, UK
Reviews for Vladimir Nabokov
"This is a striking and original book. Glynn attacks the trend in criticism of Nabokov that reads his work as a Symbolist and instead suggests that a large part of the novelist s work is founded on a dynamic interaction with the theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Henri Bergson. This study explores how Nabokov s project has been transformed by ... Read more