Nabokov's Women

The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads
Herausgeber: Rakhimova-Sommers, Elena

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume studies the enigmatic but silent heroines Nabokov brings to the page. Chapter 4, "Nabokov's Mermaid: 'Spring in Fialta'" by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781498503303
• ISBN-10: 1498503306
• Artikelnr.: 48697329

Autorenporträt

Elena Rakhimova-Sommers is principal lecturer in Russian and global literature at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Nabokov's Passportless Wanderer: A Study of Nabokov's Woman
Elena Rakhimova
Sommers Part I: Fugitive Souls 1.Via Dolores: The Passage of the Feminine as Contraband in Nabokov's Fiction
Sofia Ahlberg 2.Queen Sacrifice: The Feminine Figure of Power and Nabokov's Strategy of Loss
Alisa Zhulina 3.A Small Mad Hope: Pale Fire, Hazel Shade, and the Oedipal Disaster
Matthew Roth 4.Nabokov's Mermaid: "Spring in Fialta"
Elena Rakhimova
Sommers Part II: Figments of Desire 5.Jealously Guarded Secrets: Nabokov's Women and the Vicissitudes of Desire
David Rampton 6.The Text(ure) of Desire: Garments and Ornaments in Nabokov's Maidens
Marie Bouchet 7.Reading the Woman on the Train
David H. J. Larmour Part III: In Search of a (Lost) Voice 8.Hearing the Female Voice in Vladimir Nabokov's Fiction
Julian W. Connolly 9."The Fascination of Pebbles": Fictional Lives of Véra Nabokov
Olga Voronina 10.Nabokov in an Evening Gown
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney 11.Speak, Mademoiselle: Nabokov's Authorial Posture Revisited
Lara Delage
Toriel