The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Journal: University of Tartu Press eBooks
Year: 2012

Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of “modeling” in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in (post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman’s conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective o