Professor Yuri Leving (USA Princeton University)

Nabokov in Motion

Modernity and Movement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An "eclectic study of the seismic cultural and technological shifts of the early 20th century and their impact on, and reflection in, Russian literature, and in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov in particular"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781501386541
• ISBN-10: 1501386549
• Artikelnr.: 62189634

Autorenporträt

Yuri Leving

Inhaltsangabe

1. Chaos and Order On the Poetics of Urbanism Bodies and Texts From Chaos
to Order The Urban Infrastructure, or "What Lies Beneath the Asphalt of the
Text?" The Resurrection of Electricity Buildings, Stairs, Elevators The
Life of Things The Telephone: A Conduit to the Other World The Street
Advertisement The Shop Window of Metatexts 2. The Train as a New Locus of
Myth Creation in Literature The Topos of the Beginning The Railroad as a
Metaliterary Device The Railroad Metaphor Childhood and the Locomotive: A
Model of the World Toys and Reasons The Station/Depot The Hierarchy of
Classes The Existential Nature of the Journey by Rail The Killing Power of
the Train and Engine The Train Wreck Conductor to Immortality The Mythology
of the Train The Esoteric Language of Trains Train. Love. Fate The Boredom
of the Road An Erotic Encounter Violence and the Railroad The Poetics of
Description Personification and Animation Cliches: Russians and the
Railroad On the Road and Longing for Russia Nabokov and Tsvetaeva: Synoptic
Chart of a Dialog The Beckoning Distance Telegraph Poles The View from the
Train Window The Underground 3. The Automobile in the Works of Nabokov: The
Semantics of Driving and the Metaliterary Process Auto vs. Train The Ride
to School The Nabokovs' American Cars Driving Experience The Model Car
controls (a Novel on Wheels) "Crossroads of Life": The Symbolism of Driving
Worlds Unknown to Each Other Metaphysics of the Garage The Route Through
the Text The Automobile in the Landscape Vehicular Mimicry Sex in a Car An
Incident on the Street Forewarnings The Car Accident Death of the Hero The
Furniture Truck 4. Symbolism of the Airplane: Breakthrough to Another
Dimension The Airplane Schematic Flight in the Russian Periodical Press in
the 1910s "And the Steel Bird Will Fly": The Airplane in Russian Poetry in
the Early Twentieth Century The Magic of Names Insects, Birds, and Fish On
the Genesis and Context of Nabokov's Poem, "The Airplane" The Music of
Flight Flight and Performance The Aesthetics of Public Death Death of the
Pilot War in the Air The Futurist Thesaurus Overcoming Gravity: Hymn to the
Airplane Flights, Dreaming, and Waking The Last Station Bibliography Index