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...Michal Oklot NAIMAN ERIC , Nabokov, Perversely ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2010 ), pp. 305 , cloth, $35.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Work Cited Nabokov Vladimir . Invitation to a Beheading . New York : Vintage International , 1989...

...Chloë Kitzinger [email protected] Tatyana Gershkovich , Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds ( Evanston, IL : Northwestern UP , 2022 ), pp. 240 , paper, $32.00 . Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024 In 1897, in one of his best-known...

...- ized space, and of its virtual supplement, the New Critical textbook” (144). He is also hard on Vladimir Nabokov, despiser of creative writing programs, pursuing Nabokov into his Cornell lecture hall, scrutinizing his lecture notes, “dutiful exercises in low-level formal analysis and plot summary...

... Bronte and Vladimir Nabokov. Rousseau's Confessions have, of course, been the occasion of significant theoreti- cal statements by both Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida about the relation between the subject and language. O'Rourke positions his own reading "along the lines" of theirs, open- ing up...

...Azeen Khan Hägglund Martin , Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2008 ) , pp. 272, cloth , $65.00 . Hägglund Martin , Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2012 ) , pp. 208, cloth , $49.95 . Copyright...

.../24/fiction.reviews1 >. Nabokov Vladimir . Lectures on Literature . New York : Harcourt Brace , 1980 . Ross Alison , ed. The Agamben Effect. Spec. issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 107 ( 2008 ). Said Edward . On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain...

... third chapter, “The Zemblan Who Came in from the Cold: Nabokov's Cold War,” which explores Charles Kinbote's paranoid reading in the context of anticommunist and homophobic anxieties. Belletto argues that Nabokov's Pale Fire is fundamentally concerned with the culture of the “lavender scare...

... of authoritative model for reconfigured practices of writing and interpretation or for a promised “rewiring of the real.” The secular theology that emerges from an indeterminable encounter with unnameable postmodern horror—sub-Borges, sub-Bolaño, sub-Nabokov—revolves around a formal play that depends, in fact...

... Knowledge (1999) and The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens (forthcoming). michael wood is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Lit- erature, Princeton University. Among his most recent books are The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov...

... Writing during the Cold War . Iowa City : U of Iowa P , 2015 . Boyd Brian . Nabokov, Perversely . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . Brouillette Sarah . Literature and the Creative Economy . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2014 . Brouillette Sarah...

... of writers such as Joyce, Nabokov, and Pynchon, on the laughter of the madman in Foucault and of the Medusa in Cixous. For Taylor, this laughter can only be transgressive in the symbolic realm, and is "characterized by a heady, euphoric irony, attended more by witty, bemused appreciation than by any...

... of Nabokov's Pale Fire feels flat and labored, whereas in a fascinating section of “Type,” Frow shows how significant the cultural type known as the melancholic and the genre-specific type of the revenger have been for understanding Shakespeare's Hamlet. Frow roams over large swathes of scholarship, touching...

..., and dissolved spaces in works like Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Aleph,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoff- man, or Salman Rushdie’s postmodern allegory of the shifting spaces of the Indian subcon- tinent in Midnight’s...

... of American power and media, each of the novelists Bachner examines valorizes violence as an unme- diated experience that cannot be accessed or reproduced discursively. In early chapters on Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, and Mailer’s Armies of the Night, she traces a shift from...

... as an elaboration of Martin Hägglund's revisionist account of Proust, Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov in the 2012 monograph Dying for Time . Hägglund's redescription of these authors as invested in fully inhabiting the passage of time rather than seeking to overcome it paves the way for Lurz's “specifically object...

... of Feeling examines a large number of canonical works (Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita) as well as novels in more obscure corners of literary history (Alfred Hodder’s The New Americans, Ludwig Lewisohn’s The Island Within), almost all of which yield fresh and learned insight...

... an ethical valence around midcentury; that the “belief in literary uncertainty as an index of ethical value” (15) emerged specifically out of the controversy and debate surrounding Nabokov's Lolita ; and that what we call contemporary literature “operate[s] within a cultural frame about the uses...

... State UP, 2011), pp. 250, cloth, $49.95. Reality is one of the few words which mean nothing without quotes. Vladimir Nabokov Quotation marks around the term “real,” standard for any discussion of reality in a postmod...

... residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and she discovered Olympia Press, from the 1950s, which published Beckett and Burroughs and Nabokov and made its proceeds from porn. She wanted to kind of reenact this as a semi-ironic curatorial project by publishing unpublishable novels, distributing...

... and Hudson , 1987 . Wood Michael . The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction . London : Chatto and Windus , 1994 . Yamada Marc . “ Exposing the Private Origins of Public Stories: Narrative Perspective and the Appropriation of Selfhood in Murakami Haruki's Post-AUM...