Nabokov's Women (eBook)

The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads

Elena Rakhimova-Sommers (Herausgeber)

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2017
274 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0331-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Nabokov's Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov's relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov's women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders, the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov's woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male protagonist's narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the "e;Works Cited"e; register of the male narrator's personal life. As a result, Nabokov's texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling privileges. This volume explores the "e;residency status"e; of Nabokov's silent nomads-his fleeting lovers, witches, muses, mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power dynamic of the writer's narrative of male desire, they ponder-are these female characters directionless wanderers or covert operatives in the terrain of Nabokov's text? Whereas each essay addresses a different aspect of Nabokov's artistic relationship with the feminine, together they explore the politics of representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter 4, "e;Nabokov's Mermaid: 'Spring in Fialta'"e; 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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Elena Rakhimova-SommersVia Dolores: The Passage of the Feminine as Contraband in Nabokov’s Fiction – Sofia AhlbergQueen Sacrifice: The Feminine Figure of Power and Nabokov’s Strategy of Loss – Alisa ZhulinaA Small Mad Hope: Pale Fire, Hazel Shade, and the Oedipal Disaster – Matthew RothNabokov’s Mermaid: “Spring in Fialta” – Elena Rakhimova-SommersJealously Guarded Secrets: Nabokov’s Women and the Vicissitudes of Desire – David RamptonThe Text(ure) of Desire: Garments and Ornaments in Nabokov’s Maidens – Marie BouchetReading the Woman on the Train – David H. J. LarmourHearing the Female Voice in Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction – Julian W. Connolly“The Fascination of Pebbles”: Fictional Lives of Véra Nabokov – Olga VoroninaNabokov in an Evening Gown – Susan Elizabeth SweeneySpeak, Mademoiselle: Nabokov's Authorial Posture Revisited – Lara Delage-Toriel

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2017
• Co-Autor: Sofia Ahlberg, Olga Voronina, Alisa Zhulina, Marie Bouchet, Julian W. Connolly, Lara Delage-Toriel, David Larmour, David Rampton, Matthew Roth, Elena Sommers, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Female Characters Nabokov • feminism studies • Lolita • Nabokov • Nabokov and Women • Nabokov’s Mermaid • Nabokov’s Nomads • Nabokov Gender Studies • Nabokov’s Mermaid • Nabokov’s Nomads • Russian Literature • Sexuality in Nabokov • Women’s Voice • Women in Literature • Women in Nabokov • women's studies • Women’s Voice
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0331-4 / 1498503314
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0331-0 / 9781498503310