Vladimir Nabokov's lectures on literature : portraits of the artist as reader and teacher / edited by Ben Dhooge, Jurgen Pieters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dhooge, Ben, editor.

Pieters, Jürgen, editor.

Series:

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; Volume 62.

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; Volume 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]

Summary:

This volume offers insight into Vladimir Nabokov as a reader and a teacher, and sheds new light on the relationship of his views on literary aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre. The essays included focus on the lectures on European and Russian literature that Nabokov gave at a number of American universities in the years between his arrival in the United States and the publication of Lolita . Nabokov’s treatment of literary masterpieces by Austen, Cervantes, Chekhov, Dickens, Flaubert, Gogol, Kafka, Joyce, Proust and Stevenson is assessed by experts on these authors. Contributors are: Lara Delage-Toriel, Ben Dhooge, Yannicke Chupin, Roy Groen, Luc Herman, Flora Keersmaekers, Arthur Langeveld, Geert Lernout, Vivian Liska, Ilse Logie, Jürgen Pieters, Gerard de Vries.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents / Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters

Introduction: Reading Nabokov Teaching / Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters

Teacher among Authors / Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters

Chapter 1: Nabokov’s Reflections on ‘Proust’s Prismatic People’ / Yannicke Chupin

Chapter 2: ‘The Author’s Pale Virgin Cheek’: Nabokov on Austen / Luc Herman

Chapter 3: Vladimir Nabokov on Don Quixote: ‘A Veritable Encyclopedia of Cruelty’1 / Ilse Logie

Chapter 4: The Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov’s Lecture on Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ / Vivian Liska

Chapter 5: ‘As Flaubert Intended It to Be Discussed’: Vladimir Nabokov and Jean Rousset on Madame Bovary / Flora Keersmaekers

Critic among Critics / Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters

Chapter 6: Nabokov on Joyce and Ulysses / Geert Lernout

Chapter 7: Gogol Seen through the Eyes of Nabokov / Arthur Langeveld

Chapter 8: On an Unhappy Marriage, Henry James, and Atoms: Vladimir Nabokov Reading (on) Anton Chekhov / Ben Dhooge

Part 3: Author among Authors / Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters

Chapter 9: ‘Do Dogs Eat Poppies?’: When Nabokov Teaches Flaubert / Lara Delage-Toriel

Chapter 10: Of Words and Worlds: The Role of Proust’s Aesthetics in Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature / Roy Groen

Chapter 11: Vladimir Nabokov on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson / Gerard de Vries.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-35287-2

OCLC:

1005715021

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004352872 DOI