Nabokov in motion

Nabokov in motion: modernity and movement

by Leving, I︠U︡riĭ

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"A ground-breaking and eclectic study of the seismic cultural and technological shifts of the early 20th century and their impact on, and reflection in, Russian literature, and in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov in particular"--

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Nabokov in motion : modernity and movement / Yuri Leving.

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"A ground-breaking and eclectic study of the seismic cultural and technological shifts of the early 20th century and their impact on, and reflection in, Russian literature, and in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov in particular"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781501386572, 1501386573, 1501386565, 9781501386558, 1501386557, 9781501386565
  • oclc:on1264723604
  • LC Classification:PG3476.N3
  • Dewey Decimal:813/.54

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Chaos and Order -- On the Poetics of Urbanism -- Bodies and Texts -- From Chaos to Order -- The Urban Infrastructure, or "What Lies Beneath the Asphalt of the Text?" -- The Resurrection of Electricity -- Buildings, Stairs, Elevators -- The Life of Things -- The Telephone: A Conduit to the Other World -- The Street Advertisement -- The Shop Window of Metatexts -- 2 The Train as a New Locus of Myth Creation in Literature -- The Topos of the Beginning -- The Railroad as a Metaliterary Device -- The Railroad Metaphor

Childhood and the Locomotive: A Model of the World -- Toys and Reasons -- The Station/Depot -- The Hierarchy of Classes -- The Existential Nature of the Journey by Rail -- The Killing Power of the Train and Engine -- The Train Wreck -- Conductor to Immortality -- The Mythology of the Train -- The Esoteric Language of Trains -- Train. Love. Fate -- The Boredom of the Road -- An Erotic Encounter -- Violence and the Railroad -- The Poetics of Description -- Personification and Animation -- Clichés: Russians and the Railroad -- On the Road and Longing for Russia

Nabokov and Tsvetaeva: Synoptic Chart of a Dialog -…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Literature and technology Littérature et technologie Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Writers

Leving, I︠U︡riĭ

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