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Nabokov in Motion
Yuri Leving
其他書名
Modernity and Movement
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2022-02-10
主題Literary Criticism / Russian & SovietLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturySocial Science / Sociology / UrbanLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Inventions
ISBN15013865659781501386565
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zGxWEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Adopting the modernist master Vladimir Nabokov as its guide, Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement is an exploration of the radically changing social, historical, technological, and literary culture of the early 20th century, a time when modes of communication and transportation, especially, were changing society in drastic and profound ways.

Across seventy microchapters that are by turn serious, ironic, informative, and playful, and which take on topics such as automobiles, trains, airplanes, electricity, elevators, advertisements, telegraphs, and telephones, Yuri Leving offers new ways to understand Nabokov, Russian literature, and technology, modernism, and world material culture. Nabokov's writings are analyzed against a broad context of prose and poetry and from the point of view of what Leving calls the poetics of urbanism in literature.

Nabokov in Motion is a ground-breaking exploration of urban and material themes in literature and creates a complex and vibrant cultural fabric of which Nabokov is the master weaver.