Nabokov, perversely
By: Eric Naiman.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801448201
Subjects: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation; Paraphilias in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A filthy look at Shakespeare's Lolita; title: Art as afterglow (Bend sinister); title: Perversion in Pnin; title: Hermophobia (on sexual orientation and reading Nabokov); title: Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran : Nabokov and Nafisi; title: Lolita in the real world; title: Blackwell's paradox and Fyodor's gift : a kinder and gentler Nabokov; title: Litland : the allegorical poetics of the defense; title: The costs of character : the maiming of the narrator in A guide to Berlin; title: The meaning of "life" : Nabokov in code (King, queen, knave and Ada); title: Epilogue : what if Nabokov had written The double : reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov.