Yuri Leving

Nabokov in Motion (eBook, PDF)

Modernity and Movement

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Adopting the modernist master Vladimir Nabokov as its guide, Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement is an exploration of the radically changing social, historical, technological, and literary culture of the early 20th century, a time when modes of communication and transportation, especially, were changing society in drastic and profound ways.

Across seventy microchapters that are by turn serious, ironic, informative, and playful, and which take on topics such as automobiles, trains, airplanes, electricity, elevators, advertisements, telegraphs, and telephones, Yuri Leving offers new ways to understand Nabokov, Russian literature, and technology, modernism, and world material culture. Nabokov's writings are analyzed against a broad context of prose and poetry and from the point of view of what Leving calls the poetics of urbanism in literature.

Nabokov in Motion is a ground-breaking exploration of urban and material themes in literature and creates a complex and vibrant cultural fabric of which Nabokov is the master weaver.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501386565
• Artikelnr.: 63205618

Autorenporträt

Yuri Leving is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, USA. He is the author of nine books and editor of six volumes, including Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel The Original of Laura (2013); Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, "Signs and Symbols" (Bloomsbury, 2012), and Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl - Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design (2013). Leving has published over a hundred scholarly articles, many of them devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, and is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal. He served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes, and was the curator for the exhibition "Nabokov's Lolita: 1955-2005" in Washington, D.C., which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) named Prof. Leving the 2017 recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.