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Women in Nabokov's life and art
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- Creator
- Nailya Garipova & Juan José Torres Núñez (eds)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Bern : Peter Lang, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 3034320566, 9783034320566
- OCLC
- ocn933585130
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: the gallery of Nabokov's women / Nailya Garipova -- "An ideal spouse for a writer" : the reality and mythsin Véra Nabokov's life / Elena Ukhova -- Véra's role in Nabokov's life and prose / Alexandra Popoff -- Remorse and Nabokov's women / Frances Peltz Assa-- Carmencita: Valentina Shulgina : the evolution of Eros in Nabokov's work / Priscilla Meyer -- "Or of the air itself" : Nabokov's "mothers" as bearers of spiritual understanding / Nora Scholz -- Fetching yet faithless : problematic mistresses in Nabokov's fiction / Julian W. Connolly -- The Nabokovian society woman : a Kirchner's cocotte? / Alexia Gassin -- "A weird place" : Nabokov and the topography of theforeign governess / Sabina Metzger -- Narrating her own absence : the narrator and protagonist of A Slice of Life / Akiko Nakata -- Making sense of death : inaccessible women in Nabokov's short stories / Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska -- An invisible harlequin in Nabokov's last novel : "You" in the protagonist's world and afterworld / Ljuba Tarvi -- "Fires of my loins" : female characters in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin / Juan Ignacio Guijarro González