Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels.
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A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels.
Nabokov and the two sister arts -- The 'mad pursuit' in Laughter in the dark -- The real life of Sebastian Knight : its colours and painting -- Pnin and the history of art -- Lolita and Aubrey Beardsley -- Pale fire zemblematically -- Leonardo and...
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Nabokov and the two sister arts -- The 'mad pursuit' in Laughter in the dark -- The real life of Sebastian Knight : its colours and painting -- Pnin and the history of art -- Lolita and Aubrey Beardsley -- Pale fire zemblematically -- Leonardo and 'Spring in Fialta' / Gerad de Vries -- A shimmer of exact details : Ada's art gallery / D. Barton Johnson -- Ada and Bosch / Liana Ashenden -- Appendix I : Passages in Nabokov's novels, stories or autobiography referring or alluding to paintings -- Appendix II : Painters mentioned or obviously referred to in Nabokov's works
