John Burt Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Burt Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Burt |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER J B |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5497-4932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nabokov's Otchaianie, La Méprise, Despair
Translated into French as La Méprise and into English, with revisions, as Despair, Vladimir Nabokov's seventh Russian novel Otchaianie (1932–1936) reveals the novelist's evolution as an international author. This narrative, whose version in English circulates as a "Vintage International," started out as the work of an author with no solid national attachments. In a sinister twist on Nabokov's cultural/linguistic fluidity, Otchaianie focuses on a …
From Tolstoy to Premchand
1. Narratives may be fractured in many ways. In comparing Tolstoy with his Indian admirer Premchand with an eye both to broken story-lines and to the authors’ ties to Gandhi that put them on a cusp between colonialism and postcoloniality, this essay needs to begin with the disruptions brought by censorship and similar intrusions on the freedom of literary expression. This external pressure on narrative continuity, along with the more intrinsicall…
Introduction Promoting the Study of Modern Literatures Worldwide
Over the past two decades, renewed interest in world literature along with the rise of translation studies, especially with its insights into how meanings shift from source to target cultures, have broadened still further comparative literature's wide array of concerns. These developments have enriched our responsiveness to verbal arts in and among many more cultures, both in the courses we teach and in our research. This forum, on studying moder…
Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy
Faces of Rereading
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual reminiscences, and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with su…
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with …
Nabokov before Proust
Yeats and Nietzsche
Heirs to Dionysus
Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual reminiscences, and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with su…
Yeats and Nietzsche
Heirs to Dionysus
Nabokov before Proust
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with …
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual reminiscences, and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with su…
Faces of Rereading
Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy
From Tolstoy to Premchand
1. Narratives may be fractured in many ways. In comparing Tolstoy with his Indian admirer Premchand with an eye both to broken story-lines and to the authors’ ties to Gandhi that put them on a cusp between colonialism and postcoloniality, this essay needs to begin with the disruptions brought by censorship and similar intrusions on the freedom of literary expression. This external pressure on narrative continuity, along with the more intrinsicall…
Introduction Promoting the Study of Modern Literatures Worldwide
Over the past two decades, renewed interest in world literature along with the rise of translation studies, especially with its insights into how meanings shift from source to target cultures, have broadened still further comparative literature's wide array of concerns. These developments have enriched our responsiveness to verbal arts in and among many more cultures, both in the courses we teach and in our research. This forum, on studying moder…
Nabokov's Otchaianie, La Méprise, Despair
Translated into French as La Méprise and into English, with revisions, as Despair, Vladimir Nabokov's seventh Russian novel Otchaianie (1932–1936) reveals the novelist's evolution as an international author. This narrative, whose version in English circulates as a "Vintage International," started out as the work of an author with no solid national attachments. In a sinister twist on Nabokov's cultural/linguistic fluidity, Otchaianie focuses on a …
Art (11 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (4 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)