Nabokov and the Question of Morality
(Sprache: Englisch)
The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov's moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those...
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The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov's moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those problems directly while addressing such questions as whether Nabokov was a bad reader, how he defined evil, if he believed in God, and how he constructed fictional works that led readers to become aware of their own moral positions. In order to elucidate his engagement with aesthetics, metaphysics, and ethics, Nabokov and the Question of Morality explores specific concepts in the volume's four sections: "Responsible Reading," "Good and Evil," "Agency and Altruism," and "The Ethics of Representation." By bringing together fresh insights from leading Nabokovians and emerging scholars, this book establishes new interdisciplinary contexts for Nabokov studies and generates lively readings of works from his entire career.
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Table of ContentsAbbreviations for Titles of Nabokov's Works and Biography
Introduction
Nabokov's Morality Play
Michael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Responsible Reading
1
"And So the Password Is-?": Nabokov and the Ethics of Rereading
Tom Whalen
2
Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good Writer, Bad Reader?
Julian Connolly
3
The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His Readers
Michael Rodgers
Good and Evil
4
Nabokov's God; God's Nabokov
Samuel Schuman
5
By Trial and Terror
Gennady Barabtarlo
6
The Aesthetics of Moral Contradiction in Some Early Nabokov Novels
David Rampton
Agency and Altruism
7
Loving and Giving in Nabokov's The Gift
Jacqueline Hamrit
8
Kinbote's Heroism
Laurence Piercy
The Ethics of Representation
9
Whether Judgments, Sentences, and Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in Nabokov
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
10
The Art of Morality, or on Lolita
Leland de la Durantaye
11
"Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sex
Elspeth Jajdelska
12
Modern Mimesis
Michael Wood
Notes on Contributors
Index
Autoren-Porträt
Michael Rodgers is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Strathclyde, UK, where he completed his PhD dissertation on the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's fiction and Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. He is currently researching the idea of uncomfortable humor in twentieth-century literature.Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. The author of over thirty essays on Nabokov, she was twice elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and currently coedits NABOKV-L, the Vladimir Nabokov Electronic Forum. She also publishes widely on American literature, detective fiction, and narrative theory.
Bibliographische Angaben
- XI, 241 Seiten, 1 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Michael Rodgers, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 113759666X
- ISBN-13: 9781137596666
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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