Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination

AvSiggy Frank

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival material, this study offers a comprehensive assessment of the importance of theatrical performance in Vladimir Nabokov's thinking and writing. Siggy Frank provides fresh insights into Nabokov's wider aesthetics and arrives at new readings of his narrative fiction. As well as emphasising the importance of theatrical performance to our understanding of Nabokov's texts, she demonstrates that the theme of theatricality runs through the central concerns of Nabokov's art and life: the nature of fiction, the relationship between the author and his fictional world, textual origin and derivation, authorial control and textual property, literary appropriations and adaptations, and finally the transformation of the writer himself from the Russian émigré writer Sirin to the American novelist Nabokov.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-12
Mått:158 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107015456

Utforska kategorier

Teater inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Siggy Frank is Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Recensioner i media

'Making exhaustive use of archival sources, Siggy Frank has constructed the most comprehensive study of theatricality in Nabokov's work to date. His plays are brought to life through a detailed exposition of their history and staging, production and reception, which in turn reveals the very particular character of Russian émigré life in the 1920s and 1930s … Perceptive, original and scrupulously researched, this is a book readers will turn to again and again. Siggy Frank has not only made a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of theatre in Nabokov's work, but also reinstated drama and theatricality as central artistic elements of his creative world.' Barbara Wyllie, Slavonica

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Trying theatre: Nabokov's playwriting; 2. Theatre on trial: Nabokov's dramaturgy; 3. Thresholds and transgressions: The Man from the USSR, The Event and Invitation to a Beheading; 4. Theatre dreams: The Tragedy of Mr Morn, The Waltz Invention and Invitation to a Beheading; 5. Puppets and masks: King, Queen, Knave and Despair; 6. Shakespeare's Ghost: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, 'That in Aleppo Once…' and Bend Sinister; Conclusion: performing identity; Bibliography; Index.