Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries

by Lisa Zunshine, Lisa Zunshine (Editor)

Overview

The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135658779
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2013
Series:	Border Crossings
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Lisa Zunshine

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction, Chapter 1: Ada's "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre", Chapter 2: Music in the Theater of the Mind: Opera and Vladimir Nabokov, Chapter 3: Resonances of Popular Music in Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, Chapter 4: The Quest for a Natural Melody in the Fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, Chapter 5: Vladimir Nabokpv's Invitation to a Beheading and Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka, Chapter 6: "Ballet Attitudes": Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, Chapter 7: Pninian Performatives, Chapter 8: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, Chapter 9: European Art: A Framing Device?, Chapter 10: Nabokov and Comic Art, Chapter 11: Nabokov's Painted Parchments, Bibliography, Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"...Nabakov scholars...will find it indispensible." — Choice

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