Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature - Portraits of the Artist as Reader and Teacher

These essays focus on Nabokov's lectures on European and Russian literature at American universities, and shed new light on the relationship of his views on aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre.

About the author

Ben Dhooge is professor of Russian Literature at Ghent University. His research focuses on early 20th century Russian literature, both Soviet and émigré. He has published on Andrey Platonov, Russian literary Modernism and early 20th century Russian émigré culture.

Jürgen Pieters is professor of Literary Theory at Ghent University. He is the author of several books on the methodology of New Historicism and edited collections on the work of Roland Barthes, Catherine Belsey and Stephen Greenblatt.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ben Dhooge (Editor), Jürgen Pieters (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2017
• EAN: 9789004352865
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35286-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Studies in Slavic Literature a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies