Nabokov

<p>Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as ""a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."" Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics st...

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description <p>Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as ""a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."" Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov’s concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov’s and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker’s book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject’s own favored devices.<p>
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-542152022-01-31T20:46:13Z Nabokov Toker, Leona PS1-3576 Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Russian literature Pnin literary structures humanism <p>Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as ""a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."" Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov’s concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov’s and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker’s book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject’s own favored devices.<p> 2021-02-11T20:29:16Z 2021-02-11T20:29:16Z 2016-10-26 08:56:43 1989 book 19901 9781501707223 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54215 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://www.cornellopen.org/9781501707223/nabokov/ http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/23174111/9781501707223.pdf http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/23174111/9781501707223.pdf Cornell University Press 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501707223 264 open access
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