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Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov / Barbara Straumann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748636464
  • 9780748636471
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Nabokov’s Dislocations -- 2. Refiguring Loss and Exile in Speak, Memory -- 3. ‘Aesthetic Bliss’ and Its Allegorical Displacements in Lolita -- Part II. Hitchcock’s Wanderings -- 4. Inhabiting Feminine Suspicion -- 5. Wandering and Assimilation in North by Northwest -- 6. Epilogue: Psychoanalytic Dislocation -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748636464);This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the principal discourse of dislocation, the book not only uses concepts such as 'screen memory', 'family romance', 'fantasy' and 'the uncanny' as hermeneutic foils, it also argues that, in their own ways, the arch-parodists Hitchcock and Nabokov are remarkably in tune with the images and tropes developed by Freud.Key FeaturesBrings an entirely new perspective to the work of Hitchcock and NabokovDiscusses psychoanalysis both as a critical approach and as a crucial reference point for the cinematic and literary texts themselvesAnalyses figurations of exile in different aesthetic mediaChallenges received notions of postmodern texts as purely playful"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Nabokov’s Dislocations -- 2. Refiguring Loss and Exile in Speak, Memory -- 3. ‘Aesthetic Bliss’ and Its Allegorical Displacements in Lolita -- Part II. Hitchcock’s Wanderings -- 4. Inhabiting Feminine Suspicion -- 5. Wandering and Assimilation in North by Northwest -- 6. Epilogue: Psychoanalytic Dislocation -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748636464);This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the principal discourse of dislocation, the book not only uses concepts such as 'screen memory', 'family romance', 'fantasy' and 'the uncanny' as hermeneutic foils, it also argues that, in their own ways, the arch-parodists Hitchcock and Nabokov are remarkably in tune with the images and tropes developed by Freud.Key FeaturesBrings an entirely new perspective to the work of Hitchcock and NabokovDiscusses psychoanalysis both as a critical approach and as a crucial reference point for the cinematic and literary texts themselvesAnalyses figurations of exile in different aesthetic mediaChallenges received notions of postmodern texts as purely playful"

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In English.

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