Nabokov : the mystery of literary structures / Leona Toker.
Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1989.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pnin: The Quest That Overrides the Goal
- 3. Mary: "Without Any Passport"
- 4. King, Queen, Knave, or Lust under the Linden
- 5. The Defense: Secret Asymmetries
- 6. Glory: "Good Example of How Metaphysics Can Fool You"
- 7. Laughter in the Dark: Guinea Pigs and Galley Slaves
- 8 . Invitation to a Beheading: "Nameless Existence, Intangible Substance"
- 9. The Gift: Models of Infinity
- 10. Bend Sinister: The "Inner" Problem
- 11. "Reader! Bruder!": Broodings on the Rhetoric of Lolita
- 12 . Conclusion
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index.