Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism
Despite Vladimir Nabokov''s hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov''s European context, John Foster shows how this writer''s art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individual...
Despite Vladimir Nabokov''s hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov''s European context, John Foster shows how this writer''s art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individual...
