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Nabokov's World
. Ed(S): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla
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Description for Nabokov's World
Hardback. Nabokov's 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. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Nabokov's 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. Here fourteen original essays by an international grouping of leading Nabokov specialists, scholars prominent in other fields, offer new insights into formative influences on his thought and the dominant agencies that structure his writing: emigration, the 'two worlds' theme and multilingualism.
Nabokov's 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. Here fourteen original essays by an international grouping of leading Nabokov specialists, scholars prominent in other fields, offer new insights into formative influences on his thought and the dominant agencies that structure his writing: emigration, the 'two worlds' theme and multilingualism.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Russia and East Europe
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333964156
SKU
V9780333964156
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About . Ed(S): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla
VLADIMIR E. ALEXANDROV Professor of Russian Literature, Yale University STEPHEN H. BLACKWELL Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville BRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of Auckland MAURICE COUTURIER Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Nice, France PAUL BENEDICT GRANT Graduate Student, University of Cambridge D. BARTON JOHNSON Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of California, Santa ... Read more
Reviews for Nabokov's World
'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 '...high quality of contributions not only ensure its utility but make it a pleasure to peruse as well.' - Julian W. Connolly, Slavic Review