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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… art. Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov all sought to transform the art of the novel to convey the complexities of temporal experience and the vulnerability of mortal life. Nevertheless, their works have persistently been read in terms of a desire to transcend mortal life. In …
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Memory and the Illusion of Time: Proust and Nabokov
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Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov
… thesis studies the play of the Other in Vladimir Nabokov’s short story collection The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov and Mu Xin’s short story collection An Empty Room. Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory on the genealogy of morality provides a framework for the research. This thesis explores the two …
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''Even the Truth needs a Barnum'' Nicolas Nabokov, Music and the Cold War
This thesis examines composer Nicolas Nabokov’s political involvement in the world of music in the 1940s and 1950s. In particular it concerns his attempt to use contemporary art music as a means of countering the influence of the Soviet Union, via the festivals he organised for the CIA-financed …
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Nabokov’s humor: the play of consciousness
Vladimir Nabokov' s fiction, particularly in its later stages, is thoroughly and multifariously humorous, with individual works incorporating large numbers of jokes to tremendous effect, to the point that enjoyment of Nabokov 's art is to some extent indistinguishable from engagement with his …
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Novelists/scenarists: Four Case Studies of Writers Adapting Their Own Fiction to Film (Wright, Nabokov, Dickey, Didion)
… are Richard Wright's Native Son, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, James Dickey's Deliverance, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays. The works chosen are all serious and complex modern novels by major novelists. In each case, the writer undertook the writing of the principal screenplay for the …
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Real places and impossible spaces: Foucault's Heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
… of their lives in exile: James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald. In each case, I argue that these sites figure the experience of exteriority constituted by exile, providing these authors with an alternative perspective from which to perform a particular kind of contestation. In Ulysses, …
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Transforming Narratives: Subjectivity and Metamorphosis in Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Alejo Carpentier, Vassilis Vassilikos, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Darrieussecq
… Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (1915) and Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Aurelian” (1931). Chapter Two addresses the postcolonial dimension of subjectivity and its collective construction in terms of the loss of home in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949) and Vassilis Vassilikos’s …and …
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Taboo topics in fiction: The case of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
… of the various narrators in the novel; Vladimir Nabokov, John Ray Jnr. and Humbert Humbert. The novel, or Humbert’s memoirs, is only published after Lolita has died in order to preserve her dignity. John Ray Jnr. is the psychologist who is charged with editing Humbert's memoirs to ensure that no …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
The library of existing scholarship on Vladimir Nabokov circles uncomfortably around his annotated translation Eugene Onegin (1964) and late English-language novel Ada, or Ardor (1969). This dissertation juxtaposes Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin (1825-32) with Nabokov's two most controversial monuments …
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Nomina nuda tenemus: Postmodernist Method in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
Vladimír Nabokov je nepochybně jedním z nejvýznamnějších autorů postmoderny. Tato bakalářská práce si klade za cíl analyzovat metodu, kterou užívá v Bledém ohni a díky níž je tento román možné nazvat postmoderním dílem. Jeho práce s textem způsobuje, že Bledý oheň představuje typický příklad …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… comedy stage. <em>Lolita</em> (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov walks a tightrope of taboo subject matter, encouraging readers to appropriately—though maybe uncomfortably—laugh at the inappropriate, and this decades before such routines like that of Louis C.K. became the norm in clubs and on television …
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The Russian in Nabokov's English novels
<p>Vladimir Nabokov is one of many recent writers—Conrad, Ionesco, Beckett, to mention a few—who have achieved literary greatness in a second, adopted language. Unlike these others, however, Nabokov has written extensively and successfully in his native tongue. Accordingly, with his work so …
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A study of portraits of the artist in contemporary fiction: critical selfconsciousness as a characterising feature of twentieth-century writing
… through the writing of Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov and SaTnuel Beckett. Selfconscious novels expose themselves as fictions rather than imitations of reality. Thus the art-work becomes a portrait of the artist who invents it, not a photographic study of the solid surfaces which enclose him. …
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COMMENT PRENDRE UNE AUTRE FORME : UNE ÉTUDE SUR LA TRADUCTION ANGLAISE ET LA VERSION CINÉMATOGRAHIQUE DU ROMAN BAISE-MOI DE VIRGINIE DESPENTES
… avancées par Walter Benjamin, Vladimir Nabokov et Thomas H. Jackson pour ensuite étudier la traduction anglaise ainsi que l’adaptation cinématographique. Cette thèse tente finalement de découvrir comment le traducteur et les réalisatrices ont essayé de transmettre les thèmes et le ton de …
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COMMENT PRENDRE UNE AUTRE FORME : UNE ÉTUDE SUR LA TRADUCTION ANGLAISE ET LA VERSION CINÉMATOGRAHIQUE DU ROMAN BAISE-MOI DE VIRGINIE DESPENTES
… avancées par Walter Benjamin, Vladimir Nabokov et Thomas H. Jackson pour ensuite étudier la traduction anglaise ainsi que l’adaptation cinématographique. Cette thèse tente finalement de découvrir comment le traducteur et les réalisatrices ont essayé de transmettre les thèmes et le ton de …
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The Philosophy Of Aesthetic Bliss: A Marxist Reading Of Nabakov's Lolita
… from social or political ideologies, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is actually a very emphatic cultural statement. Using the theories of Fredric Jameson, I will examine the novel in terms of what it has to say about social relations, uncovering the inescapable political agenda. Lolita is a …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… to the kind of reading of Don Quixote offered by Nabokov. By arguing that even the most "literary" of writers reads for political purposes, I hope to situate Rorty within a cultural space where the literary and political converge.
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