Nabokov's Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nabokov's Women write by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers. This book was released on 2017-10-15. Nabokov's Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders, the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov’s woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male protagonist’s narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the “Works Cited” register of the male narrator’s personal life. As a result, Nabokov’s texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling privileges. This volume explores the “residency status” of Nabokov’s silent nomads—his fleeting lovers, witches, muses, mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power dynamic of the writer’s narrative of male desire, they ponder—are these female characters directionless wanderers or covert operatives in the terrain of Nabokov’s text? Whereas each essay addresses a different aspect of Nabokov’s artistic relationship with the feminine, together they explore the politics of representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter 4, "Nabokov's Mermaid: 'Spring in Fialta'" by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies.
Women in Nabokov's Life and Art
Women in Nabokov's Life and Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Nabokov's Life and Art write by Nailya Garipova. This book was released on 2016. Women in Nabokov's Life and Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume discusses women in Nabokov. It has two parts: In the first one, there are biographical essays on the role of the real women in Nabokov's life and how their love and suffering are reflected in his prose. The second part deals with Nabokov's women in his fiction.
Strong Opinions
Strong Opinions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strong Opinions write by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 1990-03-17. Strong Opinions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strong Opinions offers Nabokov's trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita. • "First published in 1973, this collection of interviews and essays offers an intriguing insight into one of the most brilliant authors of the 20th century." - The Guardian Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, among other subjects. Keen to dismiss those who fail to understand his work and happy to butcher those sacred cows of the literary canon he dislikes, Nabokov is much too entertaining to be infuriating, and these interviews, letters and articles are as engaging, challenging and caustic as anything he ever wrote.
Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era
Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era write by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate studentsin the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond, how do we approach Nabokov’s inflammatory masterpiece, Lolita? How do we read a novel that describes an unpardonable crime? How do we balance analysis of Lolita’s brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? This student-focused volume offers practical and specific answers to these questions and includes suggestions for teaching the novel in conventional and online modalities. Distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered nature of Lolita by sharing innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, methodologies of teaching the novel through film and theatre, and new critical analyses and interpretations.
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve write by Ben Blatt. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.
