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The European Nabokov web, classicism and T.S. Eliot : a textual interpretation of Pale fire

By Eliot , Thomas Stearns , Eliot Thomas Stearns; Eliot , Thomas Stearns; Nabokov , Vladimir Vladimirovich; Davies , Robin H.; Nabokov , Vladimir Vladimirovich; Eliot

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2011
ISBN
193623565X, 9781936235650, 9781618111319, 1618111310
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5929567 bytes)
Series
Studies in russian and slavic literatures, Cultures and history
Pages
275\297
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics, and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930s with his young son and Jewish wife, Eliot's passivism must have seemed to him the very antithesis of survival. The enigmatic Pale Fire and its surface triviality suggested that there could be self-consistent logic within the obvious commentary of Charles Kinbote and John Shade's poem. Davies places this work in its vast European context, forming a bridge between Russian and Europeanliterature which will be appreciated by scholars of both

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