Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0022069, Wed, 5 Oct 2011 01:47:52 +0100

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Re-Richard Locke
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As a useful antidote to obsessions with Author-X¹s mooted Influence on
Author-Y, I¹ve been reading (audio-book hearing) Faulks on Fiction ‹ Great
British Characters and the Secret Life of the Novel. This is novelist
Sebastian Faulk¹s reaction to his personal ups¹n¹downs via Lit Theory¹s
spins on author-as-human-like-us vs product-as-self-contained-text. In
particular, Faulks welcomes VN¹s dislike of hunting for real-life
Œbiographical¹ influences in the novelist¹s choice of characters/actions.
Faulks¹s message is, Lord, deliver us from total critical-method immersion!
Stay afloat and enjoy the stories and characters as precious inventions.
Stan Kelly-Bootle

On 03/10/2011 02:47, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:

> Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels -Richard Locke
> September, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-231-15782-7
> "Using the portrayal of childhood as his eye-opening theme and total immersion
> as his critical method, Richard Locke brilliantly reexamines classic novels we
> complacently thought we understood. He enlarges and freshens our insight into
> modern works by Salinger, Nabokov, and Philip Roth by placing them in a line
> that reaches back to masterpieces by Dickens and Twain..."— Morris Dickstein
> "Richard Locke succeeds in giving a fresh mythic quality to the prismlike
> insights of Dickens, Twain, James, Barrie, Salinger, Nabokov, and Roth (with a
> nod to the other Roth, Henry). . . .
>
> Critical Children
> <http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15782-7/critical-children/reviews>
> cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231.../reviews -
>
> ..............................................................................
> ...................................................
> Google sources a lot more about Nabokov in R. Locke: For instance:
> DETAILS IN NABOKOV, BARTHELME, AND PROUST
> RICHARD LOCKE - Article first published online: 11 SEP 2007 DOI:
> 10.1111/j.1467-9736.2007.00332.xIssueThe Yale Review
> Volume 95, Issue 4, pages 45–57, October 2007
>


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