The models of space, time and vision in V. Nabokov's fiction : narrative strategies and cultural frames
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The models of space, time and vision in V. Nabokov's fiction : narrative strategies and cultural frames
（Tartu semiotics library, 5）
Tartu University Press, 2006
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Ruumi, aja ja vaate mudelid V. Nabokovi proosas : narratiivistrateegiad ja kultuurifreimid
Модели пространства, времени и зрения в прозе В. Набокова : нарративные стратегии и культурные фреймы
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At head of title: University of Tartu
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-315) and index
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Description
Because of his rejection of socio-political engagement, Vladimir Nabokov is often regarded as a virtuouso artist of the ivory-tower variety, aloof from the contemporary march of the minds. Marina Grishakova's book, however, points to the relationship between his narrative techniques and some of the scientific, metaphysical, and ethical ideas on the inner agenda of the twentieth century. It connects Nabokov's handling of time, space, and perspective in his fiction with the philosophical models constructed by his contemporaries, also showing in what ways he may have been ahead of his time.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Models and metaphors
- Possible worlds and modeling systems
- Time, space, and point of view as constitutive elements of the textual world
- Nabokov as a writer and a scientist: "natural" and "artificial" patterns
- Part I. The Models of Time
- The specious present: time as a "hollow"
- The spiral or the circle: Mary
- 1. Involution and metamorphosis
- 2. The triple dream
- 3. Nietzsche's circle of the eternal return
- 4. Time and double vision in Proust and Nabokov
- 5. Bergson's spiral of memory
- Tempus reversus
- Time and eternity: aevum
- Part II. The Model of the Observer
- The observer and the point of view
- Vision and word: the seat of a semiotic conflict
- 1. H. James: The Turn of the Screw
- 2. V. Nabokov: The Eye
- 3. A. Hitchcock: Rear Window
- Frame, motion and the observer
- Part III. The Models of Vision
- Automatism and disturbed vision
- Inhibition and artistic failure
- Camera obscura
- Nabokov's visual devices
- Part IV. The Doubles and Mirrors
- PartV. Multidimensional Worlds
- The outside and the inside
- Bend Sinister as a multilayer dream
- The worlds of seduction: Lolita
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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