The quill and the scalpel
Subtitle: Nabokov's art and the worlds of science
By: Stephen H. Blackwell.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210994; 9780814291979
Subjects: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation; Art and science; Science -- Philosophy; Science and the humanities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nabokov as a scientist; title: Nabokovian science and Goethean science; title: Utility and futility : Nabokov's biological etudes; title: Anti-psychological; title: Nabokov's physics : particles, waves, and uncertainty; title: Minding the gap : discontinuities in nature, art, and science.