The European Nabokov Web, Classicism and T.S. Eliot (Hardcover, New)

Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930s with his young son and Jewish wife, Eliot's passivism must have seemed to him the very antithesis of survival. The enigmatic Pale Fire and its surface triviality suggested that there could be self-consistent logic within the obvious commentary of Charles Kinbote and John Shade's poem. Davies places this work in its vast European context, forming a bridge between Russian and European literature which will be appreciated by scholars of both.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2023
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Robin Davies
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	235
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-936235-65-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-936235-65-X
Barcode:	9781936235650

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