Vladimir Nabokov and the art of play / Thomas Karshan.
Vladimir Nabokov and the art of play / Thomas Karshan.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N813.54/1132
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English
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xi, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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England
Date Published
2011.
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In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' All of Nabokov's novels contain scenes of games: chess, scrabble, cards, football, croquet, tennis, and boxing, the play of light and the play of thought, the play of language, of forms, and of i...
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Vladimir Nabokov and the art of play / Thomas Karshan.
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Oxford English Monographs.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-264) and index.
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N813.54/1132
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74VvJwBBp20d
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0199603987
9780199603985
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813.54
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991008003639702626
