| Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Glynn, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403979855 ISBN-13: 9781403979858 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2007009639 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 202 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality. |