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Nabokov, perversely / Eric Naiman.
LIBRA PS3527.A15 Z838 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naiman, Eric, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Paraphilias in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- A filthy look at Shakespeare's Lolita
- Art as afterglow (Bend sinister)
- Perversion in Pnin
- Hermophobia (on sexual orientation and reading Nabokov)
- Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran : Nabokov and Nafisi
- Lolita in the real world
- Blackwell's Paradox and Fyodor's Gift : a kinder and gentler Nabokov
- Litland : the allegorical poetics of The defense
- The costs of character : the maiming of the narrator in "A guide to Berlin"
- The meaning of "life" : Nabokov in code (King, queen, knave and Ada)
- Epilogue : what if Nabokov had written "The double" : reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801448201
- 0801448204
- OCLC:
- 468233439
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