Alisa Zhulina,David Larmour,David Rampton,Julian W. Connolly,Lara Delage-Toriel,Marie Bouchet,Matthew Roth,Olga Voronina,Sofia Ahlberg,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Nabokov’s Women

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  • Елизавета Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    David Larmour’s chapter, “Reading the Woman on the Train,”
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    Rampton’s “Jealously Guarded Secrets: Nabokov’s Women and the Vicissitudes of Desire,”
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    the feminine in Nabokov as “a coded text that, although authored by Nabokov and his male narrators, takes on a significance which ulimately remains beyond their cognitive reach
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    wanderer, a stranger, a marginal figure never to reach ‘the blessed land, where at last she would be understood.’
  • Елизавета Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    investigates the autobiographical figure of his Swiss governess Cecile Miauton, also known as Mademoiselle O, a seemingly unlikely candidate for Nabokov’s alter ego and another woman to join the list of Nabokovian heroines,
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    xcept those like Claire Bishop in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight whose “imagination was of a particularly strong, almost masculine quality”
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    from the beginning of his career, Nabokov associated writing with maleness and masculinity
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    “literary transvestism” or “narrative cross-dressing”—a scenario where a solipsistic narrator imagines possessing the power of a “lady-writer’s pen,” an instrument he simultaneously despises, envies, and desires
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    some cases, this oblique or mediated mode of expression is a sign of the female character’s marginality or lack of status in the male character’s perspective, but in other cases, it is this very lack of face-to-face presence that gives the female’s communication special force.
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    explores the notion of female communicative agency
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