Nabokov and the question of morality : metaphysics, and the ethics of fiction /: metaphysics, and the ethics of fiction. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Rodgers, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, editors.
• Editors: Rodgers, Michael; Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth
• Contents: Introduction: Nabokov's Morality Play, Michael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Responsible Reading: "And So the Password Is-?": Nabokov and the Ethics of Rereading, Tom Whalen -- Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good Writer, Bad Reader?, Julian Connolly -- The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His Readers, Michael Rodgers -- Good and Evil: Nabokov's God; God's Nabokov, Samuel Schuman -- By Trial and Terror, Gennady Barabtarlo -- The Aesthetics of Moral Contradiction in Some Early Nabokov Novels, David Rampton -- Agency and Altruism: Loving and Giving in Nabokov's The Gift, Jacqueline Hamrit -- Kinbote's Heroism, Laurence Piercy -- The Ethics of Representation: Whether Judgments, Sentences, and Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in Nabokov, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- The Art of Morality, or on Lolita, Leland de la Durantaye -- "Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sex, Elspeth Jajdelska -- Modern Mimesis, Michael Wood -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813.54; Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and morals; Literature and morals; Russian literature; Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; Aesthetics; Fiction; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137596666; 9781137592217; 1137592214
• Related ISBNs: 113759666X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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