| Nabokov's Canon: From Onegin to ADA Contributor(s): Bozovic, Marijeta (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810133156 ISBN-13: 9780810133150 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2015049346 |
| Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late English language novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered relatively unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful study, these key texts reveal Nabokov's ambitions to reimagine a canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a central, rather than marginal, strain. Nabokov's scholarly work, translations, and lectures on literature bear resemblance to New Critical canon reformations; however, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to legitimize his own literary practice. The new angles and theoretical framework offered by Nabokov's Canon help us to understand why Nabokov's provocative monuments remain powerful source texts for several generations of diverse international writers, as well as richly productive material for visual, cinematic, musical, and other artistic adaptations. |