The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399519212ISBN-10:1399519212UPC:9781399519212Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Humor, EuropeanBook Topic:Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCFB0480K1
The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399519212ISBN-10:1399519212UPC:9781399519212Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Humor, EuropeanBook Topic:Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCFB0480K1
Paul Benedict Grant is an Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. In addition to his many publications on Nabokov's humour, he has written on humour in the work of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor, and is co-editor of Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver (2011).
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