Figurations of exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov / Barbara Straumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Straumann, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Exiles in literature.

Exiles in motion pictures.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak Memory Lolita The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Suspicion North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Nabokov's Dislocations; Chapter 2 Refiguring Loss and Exile in Speak, Memory; Chapter 3 'Aesthetic Bliss' and Its Allegorical Displacements in Lolita; Part II Hitchcock's Wanderings; Chapter 4 Inhabiting Feminine Suspicion; Chapter 5 Wandering and Assimilation in North by Northwest; Chapter 6 Epilogue: Psychoanalytic Dislocation; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5189-6

1-282-05894-0

9786612058943

0-7486-3647-1

OCLC:

476252639