Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels / Edition 1

by Herbert Grabes, Pamela Gliniars

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027933454
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/01/1977
Series:	Studies in American Literature , #25
Edition description:	Reprint 2012
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

i-iv — CONTENTS — IN PLACE OF AN INTRODUCTION — I. Truth and Fiction in Literary Biography: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight — II. FICTITIOUS BIOGRAPHY AS PARADIGM FOR THE BETTER WORLD OF ART: BEND SINISTER — III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS DEMONSTRATION OF “PRECISE FATE”: LOLITA — IV. BIOGRAPHY AS A BALANCE BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY: PNIN — V. THE COMBINATION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AS “CORRELATED PATTERN IN THE GAME”: PALE FIRE — VI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS THE TRIUMPH OF SUBJECTIVITY: ADA OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE — VII. BIOGRAPHY AS SINKING BACK INTO THE PAST: TRANSPARENT THINGS — VIII. PARODIED AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS SATIRE ON THE UNITY OF LIFE AND WORK: LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS — SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY