Overview
Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov s epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.
- | Author: M. Glynn
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 202 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1403979855
- | ISBN-13: 9781403979858
