| Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature: Portraits of the Artist as Reader and Teacher Contributor(s): Dhooge, Ben (Editor), Pieters, Jürgen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004352864 ISBN-13: 9789004352865 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Russian Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Series: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, J rgen Pieters, Gerard de Vries. |
