Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

by Michael Glynn

Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403979855
• ISBN13: 9781403979858
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"