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Vladimir Nabokov

  • Textbook
  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. David Rampton
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Novelists Series (PMN)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • David Rampton
    Pages 1-6

  3. Lives of a Young Émigré: Mary, Glory, and The Gift

    • David Rampton
    Pages 7-33

  4. Studies in Obsession: The Defense, The Eye, Laughter in the Dark, and Despair

    • David Rampton
    Pages 34-56

  5. Experiments in Mid-Career: Invitation to a Beheading, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and Bend Sinister

    • David Rampton
    Pages 57-78

  6. The Morality of the Aesthete: Lolita

    • David Rampton
    Pages 79-102

  7. Metafictions: Pale Fire, Ada, and Look at the Harlequins!

    • David Rampton
    Pages 103-123

  8. Conclusion

    • David Rampton
    Pages 124-125

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 126-143
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Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist's aesthetic precepts and practice and the distinctive character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the modernist and postmodernist enterprise. It analyses the importance of the novels' challenges to all sorts of aesthetic and moral presumptions (including some of Nabakov's own). Readers are thus encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the issues raised in Nabakov's work.

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