Nabokov, history and the texture of time / Will Norman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norman, Will, 1978- author.

Series:

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Social history in literature.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself - that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism - this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading his American work alongside the violent upheavals of twentieth-century ideological conflicts in Europe and the United States. This approach explores how the author's characteristic temporal manipul

Contents:

Nabokov in literary history

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse

Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance

Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister

Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust

Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov

Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-283-64379-0

0-203-10806-X

1-136-26436-1

9780203108062

OCLC:

815653506