Versions of modernist fiction
Subtitle: Henry James and Vladimir Nabokove
By: German-Polish Graduate Student Symposium at the John F. Kennedy-Institute fü̈r Nordamerikastudien Jan. 18-20, 2002; edited by Isabel Kranz
Series: Materialien -- 34
Publisher: John F. Kennedy-Institute fü̈r Nordamerikastudien Freie Universitä̈t Berlin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9783886460540
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Agniszka Graff and Heinz Ickstadt; title: Queer secrets: the working of homoerotic desire in "The beast in the jungle" and "The figure in the carpet"  -- Justyna Wlodarczyk; title: Turns and transmissions - the secret of Henry James  -- Philipp Ekardt; title: "Its," or the art of verbal detail in Henry James' "The turn of the screw"  -- Elzbieta Korolczuk; title: The notion of detail in Henry James and Vladimir Nabokov: "The solidity of specification" versus "The torrent of details"  -- Isabel Kranz; title: Nabokov's "Lolita" as a game of chess - Who is the king?  -- Sabina Czyzowska; title: Poetic Seductions/seductive poetry: the sofa scene in "Lolita"  -- Ulrike Meitzner; title: Aesthetics and evil in "Lolita" and Humbert Humbert on stage -- Ben Knight.