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Nabokov on the Heights

New Studies from Boston College

Maxim D. Shrayer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
318 Seiten
2025
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-89783-006-0 (ISBN)
CHF 72,90 inkl. MwSt
This unique volume features a baker’s dozen of essays about Vladimir Nabokov by Boston College students and. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.
Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.

Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish studies program. Shrayer is the author and editor of over thirty books of nonfiction, biography, fiction, poetry, and translations, most recently the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the collection of poetry Conductor from Zion Square. Shrayer has published four books about Vladimir Nabokov and regularly teaches Nabokov seminars at Boston College. His works have been translated into thirteen languages. For more information, visit www.shrayer.com

Editor’s Introduction: Nabokov on the Heights (and in Boston)Maxim D. Shrayer




Nabokov in Boston: A Photo Essay

Matthew Lyberg




Angst and Asymptote: The Success Motif in Nabokov’s Fiction

Eric Weiskott




Unlimited Time: Visual Art and Temporality in Vladimir Nabokov’s “La Veneziana” and “The Visit to the Museum”

Megumi DeMond




Marriage and Its Discontents: Infidelity and Unhappiness in Vladimir Nabokov's Life and Art

Ciara Spencer




Joyce’s L. Bloom to Nabokov’s Cincinnatus C.: The Influence of Joyce’s Ulysses on Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading

Nina Khaghany




“That Skip-Space Piece”: Positioning the Knight in Nabokov’s Poetics

Nick Adler




Sharing Other Worlds: Companionship and Coauthorship in The Gift and Glory

Fiona Steacy 




Other (Dis)enchanted Motels: Nabokov’s Chronicles of Suburban America

Jared Hackworth




Questions of Style and Technique: Death and Immortality in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov

Katie Pelkey




Nabokov, the Poetics of Religious Conversion, and the Post-Shoah Reckoning

Maxim D. Shrayer




“She stands before me as a living child”: Aestheticism, Sentimentality, and Desire in Lolita

Kevin Ohi




Vladimir Nabokov and the Fruits of Fiction

Brendan McCourt




Negotiating Nabokov within America’s Political and Social Context

Samuel Peterson




Acknowledgments

Index of Names and Places

Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Brighton
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 233 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13 979-8-89783-006-0 / 9798897830060
Zustand Neuware
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