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Subject(s)

• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Free will and determinism in literature [Browse]
• Ethics in literature [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Russian literature and theory [More in this series]
• Northwestern University Press Studies in Russian literature and theory

Summary note

"The book advances an original and provocative argument about the formation, career, and legacies of Vladimir Nabokov, for whom artistic and moral acts served as testaments to free will"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Where Nature Ends and Art Begins: Courtesy, Love, Pity
• Courtoisie: Une Élégance Morale
• The Duel of Honor: Nabokov, Pushkin, Kant
• Hospitality and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: Nabokov, Pushkin, Shakespeare
• The Art of Lying: Nabokov, Tolstoy, Botkin
• The End of Courtesy, the End of Art: Nabokov and Proust
• Epilogue. Van, Gawain, and Kant's Green Iris.

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ISBN

• 9780810143999 (paperback)
• 0810143992 (paperback)
• 9780810144002 (hardcover)
• 081014400X (hardcover)

LCCN

2021011353

OCLC

1228007271

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