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Nabokov's Otherworld
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Nabokov's Otherworld
Contributors:
By (Author) Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
813.54
Prizes:
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
284
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his consequent redefinition of "nature" and "artifice" as synonyms. Begi
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
