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"This comparative study of Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Questions about the contingencies of history and the rupture of the real are ha…
This book traces the evolution of Vladimir Nabokov's prose fiction from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s. While individual works by Nabokov have attracted extensive commentary, the precise contours of Nabokov's development as a writer of fiction have received little attention. Ju…
"This work offers critical studies of films that adapted works by Vladimir Nabokov. One of the most screened twentieth century authors (with over 10 books adapted for cinema), his works are full of quirky and forbidden romance, and his writing is renowned for its cinematic quali…
"Focusing on Lolita but also addressing other major works (especially Speak, Memory and Pale Fire), the author asks whether the work of this writer whom many find cruel contains a moral message and, if so, why that message is so artfully concealed. Style Is Matter places Nabokov…
Through a close examination of Nabokov's father's political, moral, and aesthetic values and, more generally, Russian liberalism as it existed in the first few decades of the 20th century, the author provides persuasive answers to many long-standing questions in this deeply rese…
The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.