Fictitious Biographies - Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels

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i-iv -- CONTENTS -- IN PLACE OF AN INTRODUCTION -- I. Truth and Fiction in Literary Biography: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight -- II. FICTITIOUS BIOGRAPHY AS PARADIGM FOR THE BETTER WORLD OF ART: BEND SINISTER -- III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS DEMONSTRATION OF "PRECISE FATE": LOLITA -- IV. BIOGRAPHY AS A BALANCE BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY: PNIN -- V. THE COMBINATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AS "CORRELATED PATTERN IN THE GAME": PALE FIRE -- VI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS THE TRIUMPH OF SUBJECTIVITY: ADA OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE -- VII. BIOGRAPHY AS SINKING BACK INTO THE PAST: TRANSPARENT THINGS -- VIII. PARODIED AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS SATIRE ON THE UNITY OF LIFE AND WORK: LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Product details

• Authors: Herbert Grabes
• Assisted by: Pamela Gliniars (Translation)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1977
• EAN: 9789027933454
• ISBN: 978-90-279-3345-4
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Studies in American Literature; Studies in American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies