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Author:   Michael Rodgers ,  Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349955558

ISBN 10:   1349955558
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   21 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Nabokov’s Morality Play, Michael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.- Responsible Reading: “And So the Password Is—?”: Nabokov and the Ethics of Rereading, Tom Whalen.- Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good Writer, Bad Reader?, Julian Connolly.- The Will to Disempower?  Nabokov and His Readers, Michael Rodgers.- Good and Evil: Nabokov’s God; God’s Nabokov, Samuel Schuman.- By Trial and Terror, Gennady Barabtarlo.- The Aesthetics of Moral Contradiction in Some Early Nabokov Novels, David Rampton.- Agency and Altruism: Loving and Giving in Nabokov’s The Gift, Jacqueline Hamrit.- Kinbote’s Heroism, Laurence Piercy.- The Ethics of Representation: Whether Judgments, Sentences, and Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in Nabokov, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.- The Art of Morality, or on Lolita, Leland de la Durantaye.- “Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs”: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sex, Elspeth Jajdelska.- Modern Mimesis, Michael Wood.- Notes on Contributors.- Index

Reviews

Nabokov and the Question of Morality ... assembles some of the best recent thought on it. ... The volume should be required reading for any scholar seeking insight into the virtuoso ... . (Thomas Seifrid, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 61 (3), 2017)

Author Information

Michael Rodgers is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Strathclyde, UK, where he completed his PhD dissertation on the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. He is currently researching the idea of uncomfortable humor in twentieth-century literature. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. The author of over thirty essays on Nabokov, she was twice elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and currently coedits NABOKV-L, the Vladimir Nabokov Electronic Forum. She also publishes widely on American literature, detective fiction, and narrative theory.

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