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Humour of Vladimir Nabokov : Mind and Matter by Paul Benedict Grant (2024, Hardcover)

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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter by Grant, Paul Benedict [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101399519212

ISBN-139781399519212

eBay Product ID (ePID)27070934218

Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHumour of Vladimir Nabokov : Mind and Matter

SubjectAmerican / General, European / Eastern (See Also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Humor

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

AuthorPaul Benedict Grant

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsPaul Grant has thought longer and harder about Nabokov's humour than anyone, and longer and harder about humour theory than any Nabokovian. Just as Nabokov appeals to the senses, the emotions, the thinking mind, and the imagination, so, Grant shows, Nabokov's humour appeals across the range of human experience from physical slapstick to metaphysical pratfalls., Writing seriously about humour is a dangerous affair and taking on Nabokov's humour multiplies the risks. Paul Grant negotiates such difficulties, and much else, with patient and intelligent care. His book is a major study of laughter and enlarges our understanding of Nabokov's work in a great many ways.

Dewey Decimal813.54

Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsTerminology, Spelling, Transliteration, AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Life and Art2. Highs and Lows3. Belly and Brain, Mind and Matter4. Comedies of the Flesh5. Tyrants Annoyed6. Last LaughsBibliographyIndex

SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour, Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.

LC Classification NumberPG3476.N3Z64 2024