Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19936147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Burt Foster (0009-0004-5497-4932, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 284 |
| Publication date | 1993-02-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781400820894 |
| OpenAlex | W4298284829 |
| ISBN | 9781400820894 |
| Open Library | OL28998063M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
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 such early Russian novels as Mary , then treats his emerging art of memory from Laughter in the Dark to The Gift . After discussing the author's cultural repositioning in his first English novels, Foster turns to Nabokov's masterpiece as an artist of memory, the autobiography Speak, Memory , and ends with an epilogue on Pale Fire . As a cross-cultural overview of modernism, this book examines how Nabokov navigated among Proust and Bergson, Freud and Mann, and Joyce and Eliot. It also explores his response to Baudelaire and Nietzsche as theorists of modernity, and his sense of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Pushkin as modernist precursors. As an approach to Nabokov, the book reflects the heightened importance of autobiography in current literary study. Other critical issues addressed include Bakhtin's theory of intertextuality, deconstructive views of memory, Benjamin's modernism of memory, and Nabokov's assumptions about modernism as a concept
Art · Art history · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Short Stories in Global Literature · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies · Modernism (Literature) · Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977)
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Peculiarity of the concept of a hero in the novel of Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita” Humbert
Modern Literary Exile. The Ones Who Leave
Transitions in Nabokov Studies
Lolita's Time Leaks and transatlantic decadence
Time-twisted space’
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction
Children’s play as a minor force toward ‘Away-from-here’ in early childhood education and care environments
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |