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Chapter 8. Litland The Allegorical Poetics of The Defense
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
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Part One: Sexual Orientation
- Chapter 1. A Filthy Look at Shakespeare’s Lolita 17
- Chapter 2. Art as Afterglow (Bend Sinister) 46
- Chapter 3. Perversion in Pnin 74
- Chapter 4. Hermophobia (On Sexual Orientation and Reading Nabokov) 105
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Part Two: Setting Nabokov Straight
- Chapter 5. Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran Nabokov and Nafisi 135
- Chapter 6. Lolita in the Real World 148
- Chapter 7. Blackwell’s Paradox and Fyodor’s Gift: A Kinder and Gentler Nabokov 161
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Part Three: Reading Preposterously
- Chapter 8. Litland The Allegorical Poetics of The Defense 181
- Chapter 9. The Costs of Character: The Maiming of the Narrator in “A Guide to Berlin” 221
- Chapter 10. The Meaning of “Life”: Nabokov in Code ( King, Queen, Knave and Ada) 233
- Epilogue. What If Nabokov Had Written “The Double”: Reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov 269
- Acknowledgments 285
- Bibliography 287
- Index 301
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part One: Sexual Orientation
- Chapter 1. A Filthy Look at Shakespeare’s Lolita 17
- Chapter 2. Art as Afterglow (Bend Sinister) 46
- Chapter 3. Perversion in Pnin 74
- Chapter 4. Hermophobia (On Sexual Orientation and Reading Nabokov) 105
-
Part Two: Setting Nabokov Straight
- Chapter 5. Reading Chernyshevsky in Tehran Nabokov and Nafisi 135
- Chapter 6. Lolita in the Real World 148
- Chapter 7. Blackwell’s Paradox and Fyodor’s Gift: A Kinder and Gentler Nabokov 161
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Part Three: Reading Preposterously
- Chapter 8. Litland The Allegorical Poetics of The Defense 181
- Chapter 9. The Costs of Character: The Maiming of the Narrator in “A Guide to Berlin” 221
- Chapter 10. The Meaning of “Life”: Nabokov in Code ( King, Queen, Knave and Ada) 233
- Epilogue. What If Nabokov Had Written “The Double”: Reading Dostoevsky after Nabokov 269
- Acknowledgments 285
- Bibliography 287
- Index 301