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Delicate Markers
Gavriel Shapiro
其他書名
Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
出版
Peter Lang
, 1998
主題
Art / General
Foreign Language Study / Russian
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0820439460
9780820439464
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vPoXAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Delicate Markers
is the first book-length study of Vladimir Nabokov's novel
Invitation to a Beheading
(1935-36), a masterpiece that has received a great deal of scholarly attention, second only to
Lolita
, among Nabokov's works. Contrary to the prevailing critical practice of interpreting the novel along specific lines, such as political or metaphysical, Shapiro considers its diverse subtexts, the implicit meanings, thereby achieving more complex and multifaceted perspectives. Even though centering on one work from Nabokov's Russian canon, Shapiro demonstrates the complexity of interartistic and cross-cultural ties in the writer's entire oeuvre, which became especially apparent in his «American years.»