The world of Nabokov's stories / Maxim D. Shrayer.
The world of Nabokov's stories / Maxim D. Shrayer.
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N813.54/N117.1/23
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English
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xix, 396 p. : ill., 24 cm.
Contents
1. Writing and Reading the Otherworld -- Interlude: Mapping Narrative Space in Nabokov's Stories -- 2. Testing Nabokov's Paradigms. The Creative Laboratory in "The Return of Chorb" (1925). Memory, Pilgrimage, and Death in "The Aurelian" (1930). Entering the Otherworld in "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (1937)...
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.
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Texas
Date Published
1999.
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Drawing on Nabokov's unpublished manuscripts and letters, Shrayer analyzes the paradigms of Nabokov's poetics and tests them in studies of major stories such as "Spring in Fialta" and "Cloud, Castle, Lake." He investigates Nabokov's dialogue with Chekhov and his rivalry with Bunin over such issues as the use of narrative closure and the nature of l...
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The world of Nabokov's stories / Maxim D. Shrayer.
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Literary modernism series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-386) and index.
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N813.54/N117.1/23
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0292777337 (alk. paper)
9780292777330 (alk. paper)
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813.54
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991011865859702626
