Vladimir Nabokov
Subtitle: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781403979858
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; European - General; 1859-1941; 1899-1977; Bergson, Henri,; Criticism and interpretation; Formalism (Literary analysis); Influence; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
Description: "Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov's epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality."--Jacket.