Foster / John Burt Foster Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism

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John Burt Foster, Jr., is Associate Professor of English and European Studies at George Mason University. He has published widely in comparative literature and is author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, John Burt

John Burt Foster, Jr.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on Citations

Pt. 1 Points of Departure 1

1 The European Nabokov, the Modernist Moment, and Cultural Biography 3

2 The Self-Defined Origins of an Artist of Memory 24

From Synesthesia to the Two Master Narratives 24

Nietzsche, Baudelaire, and the Discourse of Modernity 36

3 The Rejection of Anticipatory Memory: From Mary to The Defense and Glory (1925-1930) 52

Pt. 2 Toward France 71

4 Encountering French Modernism: Kamera Obskura (1931-1932) 73

5 From the Personal to the Intertextual: Dostoevsky and the Two-Tiered Mnemonic System in Despair (1932-1933) 91

6 Narrative between Art and Memory: Writing and Rewriting "Mademoiselle O" (1936-1967) 110

7 Memory Modernism, and the Fictive Autobiographies 130

Recollected Emotion in "Spring in Fialta" (1936-1947) 131

The Covert Modernism of The Gift (1934-1937) 146

Pt. 3 In English 157

8 Cultural Mobility and British Modernism: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Bend Sinister (1938-1946) 159

9 Autobiographical Images: The Shaping of Speak, Memory (1946-1967) 178

10 The Cultural Self-Consciousness of Speak, Memory 203

Epilogue: Proust over T. S. Eliot in Pale Fire (1962) 219

Notes 233

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

John Burt Foster, Jr., is Associate Professor of English and European Studies at George Mason University. He has published widely in comparative literature and is author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton).