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ISBN13: | 9781399519212 |
ISBN10: | 1399519212 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Language: | English |
700 |
Category:
The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov
Mind and Matter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date of Publication: 30 September 2024
Number of Volumes: Print PDF
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Short description:
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov?s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour
Long description:
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov?s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.
Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsTerminology, Spelling, Transliteration, AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Life and Art2. Highs and Lows3. Belly and Brain, Mind and Matter4. Comedies of the Flesh5. Tyrants Annoyed6. Last Laughs BibliographyIndex