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Categories: Literary Criticism
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Nabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career—from the 1920s to the 1940s—in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinem
Nabokov
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Pages: 266
Authors: Leona Toker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-01 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker
Nabokov, Perversely
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Eric Naiman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the pleasures and perils to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the sign
Style is Matter
Language: en
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Authors: Leland De la Durantaye
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"How should we read Lolita? The beginning of an answer is that we should read it the way all great works deserve to be read: with attention and intelligence. Bu
Dying for Time
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Authors: Martin Hägglund
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Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hägglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time an