Nabokov, perversely

Nabokov, perversely / Eric Naiman.

"This clear and compelling book is a delight. Nabokov, Perversely is a well-reasoned and brilliant attempt to revolutionize Nabokov studies. Eric Naiman has written a Nabokov book as much for Nabokov skeptics as for Nabokovians."--Eliot Borenstein, New York University, author of Overkill:...

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Main Author: Naiman, Eric, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977
Paraphilias in literature.
Sex in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Paraphilias in literature
Sex in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • A filthy look at Shakespeare's Lolita
  • Art as afterglow (Bend sinister)
  • Perversion in Pnin
  • Hermophobia (on sexual orientation and reading Nabokov)
  • Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran : Nabokov and Nafisi
  • Lolita in the real world
  • Blackwell's Paradox and Fyodor's Gift : a kinder and gentler Nabokov
  • Litland : the allegorical poetics of The defense
  • The costs of character : the maiming of the narrator in "A guide to Berlin"
  • The meaning of "life" : Nabokov in code (King, queen, knave and Ada)
  • Epilogue : what if Nabokov had written "The double" : reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov.

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