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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Vladimir Nabokov"”.
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Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov
This 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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Real places and impossible spaces: Foucault's Heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
… majority 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 …
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Transforming Narratives: Subjectivity and Metamorphosis in Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Alejo Carpentier, Vassilis Vassilikos, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Darrieussecq
… in Franz 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 …
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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 …
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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
… de traduction 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 …
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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
… de traduction 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 …
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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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Magic City Mischief
… tradition of the erotic exemplified by Vladimir Nabokov, Anaїs Nin, and Sidonie Gabrielle Colette. And because my stories are grounded in such a vehemently bold locale—not to mention a bolder present—I aimed for language as bold. To alert the reader that this is a different sort of read, …
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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… work of 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 …
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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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For All Peoples and All Nations: Anglophone Literature and the Imaginative Work of International Law (1884-2017)
… novelists—including Joseph Conrad, Bryher, Vladimir Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—work through the promises and problems of international jurisprudence. More than a mere reflection of international law’s evolving theory and practice, the literature I treat registers …
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A study of portraits of the artist in contemporary fiction: critical selfconsciousness as a characterising feature of twentieth-century writing
… chiefly 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 …
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The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway
… on the transmedia aesthetics of Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and Peter Greenaway assess the uses to which evolutionary theory has been put in works that combine and transform multiple media forms. By identifying a recurrent set of anxieties across these works, many of which insist on …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… standup 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 …
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Class work: New York intellectual labor and the creation of postmodern American fiction, 1932-1962
… academic fictions of Trilling, McCarthy, and Vladimir Nabokov helped create the characteristic themes and even forms of this emerging genre—and thence of postmodernism itself, whose early canon includes such campus novels as Nabokov’s _Pale Fire_ (1962) and John Barth’s _Giles Goat-Boy_ …
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The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
… attention on works of fiction by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth that describe the mirroring and windowing functions of literature itself.
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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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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… between Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the aesthetic, defending art’s …
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