Lectures on literature / Vladimir Nabokov ; edited by Fredson Bowers ; introd. by John Updike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Contributor:

Bowers, Fredson.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Title for v. 2: Lectures on Russian literature

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ; [Columbia, S.C.] : B. Clark, ©1980-©1981.

Summary:

The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others??--??with an introduction by John Updike. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov's famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Marcel Proust's The Walk by Swann's Place, Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and other works. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers.

Contents:

v. 1. [British, French and German writers]. Editor's foreword / by Fredson Bowers ; Introduction / by John Updike ; Good readers and good writers ; Jane Austen : Mansfield Park ; Charles Dickens : Bleak House ; Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary ; Robert Louis Stevenson : "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" ; Marcel Proust : The walk by Swann's place ; Franz Kafka : "The metamorphosis" ; James Joyce : Ulysses ; The art of literature and commonsense.

v. 2. Russian writers. Dead souls (1842) / Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) ; The overcoat (1842) / Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) ; Fathers and sons (1862) / Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) ; Crime and punishment (1866) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Memoirs from a mousehole (1864) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; The idiot (1868) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; The possessed (1872) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; The bothers Karamazou (1880) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Anna Karenin / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ; The death of Ivan Ilyich (1884-1886) / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ; The lady with the little dog (1899) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ; In the gully (1900) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ; Notes on the seagull (1896) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ; On the rafts (1895) / Maxim Gorki (1868-1936).

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy signed by Chaim Potok, on front flyleaf.

Potok Collection copy imperfect: volume 2 wanting.

Potok Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Other Format:

Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lectures on literature.

ISBN:

0151495971

9780151495979

0156027755

9780156027755

0151495998

9780151495993

0156027763

9780156027762

0156495899

9780156495899

OCLC:

6357239