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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor --- Criticism and interpretation.

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'Sounds have colors and colors have smells.' This sentence in Ada is only one of the many moments in Nabokov's work where he sought to merge the visual into his rich and sensual writing. This lavishly illustrated study is the first to examine the role of the visual arts in Nabokov's oeuvre and to explore how art deepens the potency of the prominent themes threaded throughout his work. The authors trace the role of art in Nabokov's life, from his alphabetic chromesthesia - a psychological condition in which letters evoke specific colors - to his training under Marc Chagall's painting instructor to his deep admiration for Leonardo da Vinci and Hieronymus Bosch. They then examine over 150 references to specific works of art in such novels as Laughter in the Dark, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Pnin, Lolita, Ada, and Pale Fire and consider how such references reveal new emotional aspects of Nabokov's fiction.A fascinating and wholly original study, Nabokov and the Art of Painting will be invaluable reading for scholars and enthusiasts of Nabokov alike.

Painting in literature --- Peinture dans la littérature --- Schilderkunst in de literatuur --- Painting in literature. --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor

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Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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"Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokov's shortest short stories, "Signs and Symbols," has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote. It has been called "one of the greatest short stories ever written" and "a triumph of economy and force, minute realism and shimmering mystery" (Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years). Anatomy of a Short Story contains: the full text of "Signs and Symbols," line numbered and referenced throughout correspondence about the story, most of it never before published, between Nabokov and the editor of The New Yorker, where the story was first published 33 essays of literary criticism, bringing together classic essays and new interpretations a round-table discussion in which a screenwriter, a theater scholar, a mathematician, a psychiatrist, and a literary scholar bring their perspectives to bear on "Signs and Symbols" Anatomy of a Short Story illuminates the ways in which we interpret fiction, and the short story in particular."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Short story. --- Literature --- Aesthetics --- Short stories --- Short story --- Story, Short --- Authorship --- Fiction --- Aesthetics. --- History and criticism --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Nabokov's Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov's relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov's women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders, the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov's woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male protagonist's narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the “Works Cited” register of the male narrator's personal life. As a result, Nabokov's texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling privileges. This volume explores the “residency status” of Nabokov's silent nomads—his fleeting lovers, witches, muses, mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power dynamic of the writer's narrative of male desire, they ponder—are these female characters directionless wanderers or covert operatives in the terrain of Nabokov's text? Whereas each essay addresses a different aspect of Nabokov's artistic relationship with the feminine, together they explore the politics of representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter 4,'Nabokov's Mermaid:'Spring in Fialta'' by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies.

Women in literature. --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Relations with women. --- Characters --- Women. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor