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Nabokov in Motion Modernity and Movement

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.02.2022

Abbildungen

approx 30-40 b/w

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

352

Maße (L/B/H)

22,6/15,2/2,8 cm

Gewicht

522 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5013-8654-1

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.02.2022

Abbildungen

approx 30-40 b/w

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

352

Maße (L/B/H)

22,6/15,2/2,8 cm

Gewicht

522 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5013-8654-1

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Nabokov in Motion

  • 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