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A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's Cosmopolitan Literary Thoughts

A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's Cosmopolitan Literary Thoughts

Hardcover

Series: China Perspectives

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032944927
ISBN13: 9781032944920
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 16 2024
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores Vladimir Nabokov's literary thoughts, which blend Russian traditions, American values, European heritage, and multiculturalism, manifesting the cosmopolitan character of his writings and aesthetic ideas.

Nabokov's literary thoughts and writings inherit the legacies of various cultural traditions. This book explores four major facets of Nabokov's intellectual and artistic origins: Russianness, Americanness, Europeanness, and multiculturalism. It discusses his affinity with major trends in twentieth-century literary theory, including Russian formalism, Bakhtinian poetics, New Criticism, aestheticism, psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonialism, and cultural identity. It also shows how Nabokov developed these ideas in his own unique way. In addition, this study provides a cross-cultural overview of his reception and influence in China, comparing his works and thoughts with several Chinese authors. This further illustrates the cosmopolitanism of his literary thought and the inclusiveness of his concept of world literature. This study helps to better understand Nabokov's ideas and writings in a broader context and also to discover innovative approaches to the communication, integration, and complementarity of Western and Eastern literatures and cultures.

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