| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 145 pages) |
| Contents |
1. On a Book Entitled Lolita -- Pulbishers and first readers -- Good readers and good interpretations -- The author as a Janus-like person -- 2. Introduction to Bend Sinister -- The author confronting reality -- The author facing his characters -- The author and his text -- 3. Foreward to Speak, Memory -- The author building his work -- The author writing thanks to remembering -- The author facing himself when writing an autobiography |
| Summary |
Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between ""the death of the author"" (Barthes) and ""the return of the author"" (Couturier), this work suggests another perspective on authorship through an analysis of Nabokov's prefaces. It is here argued that the author, being neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparitions and receding disappearances in the double gesture of mastery without mastery which Derrida calls 'exappropriation', that is, a simultaneous attempt to appropriate one's work, control it, have it under one's power and expropriate it, losing control |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast |
| Subject |
Literature & literary studies.
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Literary theory.
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C 1900 -.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443873024 |
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1443873020 |
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1322607826 |
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9781322607825 |
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1443866822 |
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9781443866828 |
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