Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

Product Description
This study seeks to counter the critical orthodoxy that conceives of Vladimir Nabokov as a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality.
Review
"This is a striking and original book. Glynn attacks the trend in criticism of Nabokov that reads his work as a Symbolist and instead suggests that a large part of the novelist s work is founded on a dynamic interaction with the theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Henri Bergson. This study explores how Nabokov s project has been transformed by the philosophy of Shklovsky and Bergson into a fictional universe which is at once playful and serious, experimental yet rooted in the everyday, both engaged and moral, a convincing answer to the demeaning arguments that the writer is nothing more than a pure stylist." - Robert Lawson-Peebles, University of Exeter
About the Author
Michael Glynn gained his Doctorate at University of Exeter, England. He has extensive experience of teaching in the Adult Education and Higher Education sectors and is currently Head of English at City College Plymouth. He has previously published on Nabokov's anti-Symbolism. City College Plymouth.