Titlebook: Nabokov and the Question of Morality; Aesthetics, Metaphys Michael Rodgers,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His Readers” “The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His Readers” focuses on the risks of readerly resistance as well as its empowering implications for “Nietzschean readers,” those who are conscious of Nabokov’s textual practice.

詼諧

Nabokov’s God; God’s Nabokovcimens has hatched: an . moth, its wings developing “to the limits set for them by God.” “Nabokov’s God; God’s Nabokov” concludes that Nabokov evidently found solace in Christianity, at least in his youth.

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Loving and Giving in Nabokov’s ,oral action. Hamrit argues that love illuminates what is good in life, acting as if it were writing the world anew; love leads, therefore, to moral action characterized by what Nabokov and Derrida both call “the possibility of its impossibility.”

不適

Whether Judgments, Sentences, and Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in Nabokovut justice to his characters, he leaves the determination of such matters up to the morality of individual readers. Sweeney argues, in fact, that Nabakov carefully designed his novels to prepare readers for this responsibility.

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“Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs”: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sexo structure and anticipation. Her chapter highlights how Nabokov uses aspects of embodied cognition to create representations which succeed both esthetically, in being vivid, and ethically, in shielding Dolores Haze from the potential for the reader’s arousal.

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叢林

Prognosis

Book 2016hical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those problems directly while addressing such questions as whether Nabokov was a bad reader, how he defined evil, if he believed in God, and how he constructed fictional works that led readers to bec

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,Introduction: Nabokov’s Morality Play,s of humanism, ethics, spirituality, “the otherworld,” religion, philosophy, politics, ideology, art, and morality in Nabokov’s fiction, Rodgers and Sweeney introduce concepts explored in this volume’s four sections: “Responsible Reading,” “Good and Evil,” “Agency and Altruism,” and “The Ethics of R