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Nabokov’s Canon: From Onegin to Ada
By (author) Marijeta Bozovic, Edited by Gary Saul Morson
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Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered relatively unsuccessful curiosities. In Bozovic's insightful study, these key texts reveal Nabokov's ambitions to reimagine a canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western masterpieces with Russian literature as a central, rather than marginal, strain. Nabokov's scholarly work, translations, and lectures on literature bear resemblance to New Critical canon reformations; however, Nabokov's canon is pointedly translingual and transnational and serves to legitimize his own literary practice. The new angles and theoretical framework offered by Nabokov's Canon help us to understand why Nabokov's provocative monuments remain powerful source texts for several generations of diverse international writers, as well as richly productive material for visual, cinematic, musical, and other artistic adaptations.
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Publisher | Northwestern University Press
Published date | 30 Apr 2016
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 264
Dimensions | 226 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 342g
ISBN | 978-0-8101-3314-3
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BISAC | literary criticism / semiotics & theory
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