Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels
Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.
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Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels
Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.
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Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

by M. Glynn
Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

by M. Glynn

Overview

Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403979858
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL GLYNN is Head of the English Department at the City College Plymouth, UK

Table of Contents

Nabokov as Anti Symbolist Nabokov and Russian Formalism Nabokov and Bergson Pale Fire Lolita Despair Deluded Worlds: King, Queen, Knave, Invitation to a Beheading, and Bend Sinister Afterword
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