The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov
Mind and Matter
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2024
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399519212
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 608
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Short description:
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov’s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour
MoreLong description:
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov’s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Terminology, Spelling, Transliteration, Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Life and Art
2. Highs and Lows
3. Belly and Brain, Mind and Matter
4. Comedies of the Flesh
5. Tyrants Annoyed
6. Last Laughs
Bibliography
Index
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