Nabokov and the Question of Morality Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Fiction /
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| Summary: | XI, 241 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59221-7 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Nabokov’s Morality Play, Michael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- Responsible Reading: “And So the Password Is—?”: Nabokov and the Ethics of Rereading, Tom Whalen
- Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good Writer, Bad Reader?, Julian Connolly
- The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His Readers, Michael Rodgers
- Good and Evil: Nabokov’s God; God’s Nabokov, Samuel Schuman
- By Trial and Terror, Gennady Barabtarlo
- The Aesthetics of Moral Contradiction in Some Early Nabokov Novels, David Rampton
- Agency and Altruism: Loving and Giving in Nabokov’s The Gift, Jacqueline Hamrit
- Kinbote’s Heroism, Laurence Piercy
- The Ethics of Representation: Whether Judgments, Sentences, and Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in Nabokov, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- The Art of Morality, or on Lolita, Leland de la Durantaye
- “Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs”: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sex, Elspeth Jajdelska
- Modern Mimesis, Michael Wood
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.