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This volume offers insight into Vladimir Nabokov as a reader and a teacher, and sheds new light on the relationship of his views on literary aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre. The essays included focus on the lectures on European and Russian literature that Nabokov gave at a number of American universities in the years between his arrival in the United States and the publication of Lolita. Nabokov’s treatment of literary masterpieces by Austen, Cervantes, Chekhov, Dickens, Flaubert, Gogol, Kafka, Joyce, Proust and Stevenson is assessed by experts on these authors. Contributors are: Lara Delage-Toriel, Ben Dhooge, Yannicke Chupin, Roy Groen, Luc Herman, Flora Keersmaekers, Arthur Langeveld, Geert Lernout, Vivian Liska, Ilse Logie, Jürgen Pieters, Gerard de Vries.

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Author:   Ben Dhooge ,  Jürgen Pieters
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   62
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9789004352865

ISBN 10:   9004352864
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   21 December 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Language:   English, Russian

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction: Reading Nabokov Teaching  Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters Part 1: FTeacher among Authors 1 Nabokov’s Reflections on ‘Proust’s Prismatic People’  Yannicke Chupin 2 ‘The Author’s Pale Virgin Cheek’: Nabokov on Austen  Luc Herman 3 Vladimir Nabokov on Don Quixote: ‘A Veritable Encyclopedia of Cruelty’  Ilse Logie 4 The Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov’s Lecture on Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’  Vivian Liska 5 ‘As Flaubert Intended It to Be Discussed’: Vladimir Nabokov and Jean Rousset on Madame Bovary  Flora Keersmaekers Part 2: Critic among Critics 6 Nabokov on Joyce and Ulysses  Geert Lernout 7 Gogol Seen through the Eyes of Nabokov  Arthur Langeveld 8 On an Unhappy Marriage, Henry James, and Atoms: Vladimir Nabokov Reading (on) Anton Chekhov  Ben Dhooge Part 3: Author among Authors 9 ‘Do Dogs Eat Poppies?’: When Nabokov Teaches Flaubert  Lara Delage-Toriel 10 Of Words and Worlds: The Role of Proust’s Aesthetics in Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature  Roy Groen 11 Vladimir Nabokov on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson  Gerard de Vries Part 4: Epilogue Afterword: (Flipping) Nabokov in the Classroom  Jürgen Pieters Index

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Ben Dhooge is professor of Russian Literature at Ghent University. His research focuses on early 20th century Russian literature, both Soviet and émigré. He has published on Andrey Platonov, Russian literary Modernism and early 20th century Russian émigré culture. Jürgen Pieters is professor of Literary Theory at Ghent University. He is the author of several books on the methodology of New Historicism and edited collections on the work of Roland Barthes, Catherine Belsey and Stephen Greenblatt.

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