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Nabokov book note. Reviewlet of L.N. Ryaguzova
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EDNOTE. Sistema esteticheskix i teoretiko-literaturnyx ponyatii V.V. Nabokova (Nabokov's System of Aesthetic & Literary Theory Concepts) ( Krasnodar: kUBANSKII GOSUDARSTVENNYI UNIVERSITET 2001),
This small book is a catalogue-dictionary of Nabokov's use of aesthetic and literary terms compiled mostly from his non-fictional writings (both English & Russian) --an attempt to define his critical "semantic universe." It consists of three sections:
I. Aesthetic & Literary concepts, e.g., circa 70 terms such as avtor,, igra, kompozitsiya, mimikrii, sinxronizatsiya, uzor, xod konem, epitet....
II. Aesthetic and cultural concepts, e.g., 14 items such as veshch', drugoi, prizma, slovo, tekst
III. Concepts & terms commonly used in discussing VN's work----gipertekst, dvoinoe vremya, metaproza potustoronnost', etc.
The volume is predicated in terms of the presumed system of critical terms inherited and developed by VN in discussing his own work and that of others---his own ideolect as it evolved from traditional systems into those used about his work by subsequent critics. This is a rather grandiose view but whatever take one has of the megaclaim--the volume can be of considerable use to Nabokov scholars as a convenient way of locating VN's comments and definitions of critical terms. The catch, of course, is that the terms are mostly translated from English into Russian and the sources are cited by their Russian translations, e.g., LZL="Lectures on Foreign Literature", etc. You must be able to read Russian and then work back to the English sources.
There is a useful critical bibliography of 127 items and a "glossary/index of each of the three categories that refer to the full definitions and examples in the three sections of the text.
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The volume is probably available through ANNI @ BOOKS
MOSCOW
anni@orc.ru
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ANdrey Nickolayenko, book-dealer,
NIna Razygrina, translator / interpreter.
This small book is a catalogue-dictionary of Nabokov's use of aesthetic and literary terms compiled mostly from his non-fictional writings (both English & Russian) --an attempt to define his critical "semantic universe." It consists of three sections:
I. Aesthetic & Literary concepts, e.g., circa 70 terms such as avtor,, igra, kompozitsiya, mimikrii, sinxronizatsiya, uzor, xod konem, epitet....
II. Aesthetic and cultural concepts, e.g., 14 items such as veshch', drugoi, prizma, slovo, tekst
III. Concepts & terms commonly used in discussing VN's work----gipertekst, dvoinoe vremya, metaproza potustoronnost', etc.
The volume is predicated in terms of the presumed system of critical terms inherited and developed by VN in discussing his own work and that of others---his own ideolect as it evolved from traditional systems into those used about his work by subsequent critics. This is a rather grandiose view but whatever take one has of the megaclaim--the volume can be of considerable use to Nabokov scholars as a convenient way of locating VN's comments and definitions of critical terms. The catch, of course, is that the terms are mostly translated from English into Russian and the sources are cited by their Russian translations, e.g., LZL="Lectures on Foreign Literature", etc. You must be able to read Russian and then work back to the English sources.
There is a useful critical bibliography of 127 items and a "glossary/index of each of the three categories that refer to the full definitions and examples in the three sections of the text.
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The volume is probably available through ANNI @ BOOKS
MOSCOW
anni@orc.ru
===========================
ANdrey Nickolayenko, book-dealer,
NIna Razygrina, translator / interpreter.