Nabokov and the Question of Morality (eBook)
XI, 241 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-59221-7 (ISBN)
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: "e;Responsible Reading,"e; "e;Good and Evil,"e; "e;Agency and Altruism,"e; and "e;The Ethics of Representation."e; 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.
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.
Table of Contents Abbreviations for Titles of
Nabokov’s Works and BiographyIntroductionNabokov’s Morality PlayMichael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Responsible Reading1“And So the Password Is—?”:
Nabokov and the Ethics of RereadingTom Whalen 2Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good
Writer, Bad Reader?Julian Connolly 3The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His ReadersMichael Rodgers Good and Evil4Nabokov’s God; God’s NabokovSamuel Schuman 5By Trial and TerrorGennady Barabtarlo 6The Aesthetics of Moral
Contradiction in Some Early Nabokov NovelsDavid Rampton Agency and Altruism7Loving and Giving in Nabokov’s The GiftJacqueline Hamrit 8Kinbote’s HeroismLaurence Piercy The Ethics of Representation9Whether Judgments, Sentences, and
Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in NabokovSusan Elizabeth Sweeney 10The Art of Morality, or on LolitaLeland de la Durantaye 11“Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex
Organs”: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing SexElspeth Jajdelska 12Modern MimesisMichael Wood Notes on Contributors
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.8.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | XI, 241 p. 1 illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Aesthetics • Lolita • Metaphysics • Morality • Nabokov |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-59221-4 / 1137592214 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-59221-7 / 9781137592217 |
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