| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century |
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Cultural revolutions.
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| Contents |
Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nabokov's Beginnings: "Ania" in Wonderland or "Does Asparagus Grow in a Pile of Manure?" -- Chapter 2. The Novel on Translation and "über-Translation": Nabokov's Pale Fire and Eugene Onegin -- Chapter 3. "Cinemizing" as Translation: Nabokov's Screenplay of Lolita and Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's Cinematic Versions -- Conclusion. Vladimir Nabokov within the Russian and Western Traditions of Translation -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the "metaliterary" to the more recent "metaphysical" approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov's deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov's practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a "true" but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 2, 2016) |
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Translations
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast |
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič 1899-1977 gnd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Übersetzung
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Theorie
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Translations
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Electronic book
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| Author |
National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, funder.
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| ISBN |
1618117033 |
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9781618117038 |
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1618112619 |
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9781618112613 |
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