Nabokov and the Question of Morality
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"A wide-ranging set of essays that both sharpen the focus and broaden the field, to include issues of ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics, as well as comparative studies that reveal the extent of Nabokov's engagement with formative developments in Russian and European literature and thought." (Barbara Wyllie, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 97 (2), April, 2019)
"Nabokov and the Question of Morality . assembles some of the best recent thought on it. . The volume should be required reading for any scholar seeking insight into the virtuoso . ." (Thomas Seifrid, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 61 (3), 2017)
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. The author of over thirty essays on Nabokov, she was twice elected president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and currently coedits NABOKV-L, the Vladimir Nabokov Electronic Forum. She also publishes widely on American literature, detective fiction, and narrative theory.
Content
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
