207358

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2007

202 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-73844-1

Vladimir Nabokov

Bergsonian and Russian formalist influences in his novels

Michael Glynn

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.

Publication details

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Glynn Michael

1-3

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Nabokov as anti-symbolist

Glynn Michael

7-22

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Nabokov and Russian formalism

Glynn Michael

23-51

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Nabokov and Bergson

Glynn Michael

53-77

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Pale fire

Glynn Michael

81-97

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Lolita

Glynn Michael

99-115

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Despair

Glynn Michael

117-126

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Deluded worlds

Glynn Michael

127-154

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The ethics of delusion

Glynn Michael

155-162

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