Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts

ISBN-13: 9780810143999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

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Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Note on Editions, Translations, and Transliteration
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Where Nature Ends and Art Begins: Love, Courtesy, Pity
• 2. Courtoisie: une élégance morale
• 3. The Duel of Honor: Nabokov, Pushkin, Kant
• 4. Hospitality and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: Nabokov, Pushkin, Shakespeare
• 5. The Art of Lying: Nabokov, Tolstoy, Botkin
• 6. The End of Courtesy, the End of Art: Nabokov and Proust
• Epilogue: Van, Gawain, and Kant’s Green Iris
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index