Dialogues in exile
Subtitle: Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Eva Hoffman
By: Stefana Roussenova
Publisher: Polis
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sofia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789547960343
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; English literature; History and criticism; Immigrants in literature
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Exile as the interface of place, self and language; title: ch. 2. Joseph Conrad's 'Amy Foster' : the outcast's outlandish jabber in the underworld; title: ch. 3. Vladimir Nabokov's 'The real life of Sebastian Knight' : the exile as Homo Ludens; title: ch. 4. Eva Hoffman's immigrant consciousness in 'Lost in translation : a life in a new language.'