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Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Dana Dragunoiu
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Winner, 2022 Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov This book shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of one of the most celebrated lite
Style is Matter
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Pages: 230
Authors: Leland De la Durantaye
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"How should we read Lolita? The beginning of an answer is that we should read it the way all great works deserve to be read: with attention and intelligence. Bu
Reader as Accomplice
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Alexander Spektor
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of thei
Art in Doubt
Language: en
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Authors: Tatyana Gershkovich
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Leo Tolstoy’s and Vladimir Nabokov’s radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition—that approaching a text skeptically is easy, b
Vladimir Nabokov in Context
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: David Bethea
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of