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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
2007
202 Pages
ISBN 978-1-349-73844-1
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, valuedthe immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-10907-1
Full citation:
Glynn, M. (2007). Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian formalist influences in his novels, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
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