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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPifer, Ellen
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245 1 0 _aNabokov and the Novel /
_cEllen Pifer.
250 _aReprint 2014
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©1980
300 _a1 online resource (197 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tPreface --
_tContents --
_tCHAPTER I. The Question of Character --
_tCHAPTER II. Consciousness, Real Life, and Fairytale Freedom: King, Queen, Knave --
_tCHAPTER III. Breaking the Law of Averages: Invitation to a Beheading --
_tCHAPTER IV. Putting Two and One Together: Bend Sinister --
_tCHAPTER V. Singularity and the Double’s Pale Ghost: From Despair to Pale Fire --
_tCHAPTER VI. The Question of Realism --
_tCHAPTER VII. Heaven, Hell, and the Realm of Art: Adas Dark Paradise --
_tCHAPTER VIII. On the Dark Side of Aesthetic Bliss: Nabokov's Humanism --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aEllen Pifer challenges the widely held assumption that Nabokov is a writer more interested in literary games than in living human beings. She demonstrates how Nabokov arranges the details of his fiction to explore human psychology and moral truth, and she argues her case with style. Focusing on the most highly wrought and aesthetically self-conscious of Nabokov's novels, Pifer shows how he deploys artifice to bring into bold relief what is real. In her chapter on King, Queen, Knave she reveals Nabokov's radical distinction between genuine and simulated human existence. She shows how, in Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister, he contrasts "grotesque design" of collective existence with the individul's radiant internal life. In Despair, Lolita, and Pale Fire Nabokov's parody of the double illuminates the unique source of human consciousness. In Ada, as in the earlier Laughter in the Dark, the inhuman nature of aesthetic bliss qualifies its delights. Making clear the moral perception of reality that lies behind Nabokov's artistic strategies, Pifer offers a new assessment of Nabokov's fiction and of his contribution to the tradition of the novel.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aEnglische Literatur Amerikas.
650 0 _aRoman.
650 4 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
650 4 _aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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