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The Web of Sense: Patterns of Involution in Selected Works of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov (New Americanists in Poland) - Hardcover
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This book is a comparative study of the early works of Vladimir Nabokov and the fictions of Virginia Woolf. The aim of this study was to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of a work, trapping and reinventing the reader. The work analyses the transgressive use of imagery, symbols, patterns and other textual devices. Studying these «dangerous games» with authors and readers, the book observes involution at work in the very structure of the fictional world, shaping its time, space and matter.
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Irena Ksiezopolska holds a PhD in English Literature from the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She has written articles on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Ondaatje and Muriel Spark and teaches at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.
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«Ksiezopolska presents a close analysis of some of the narrative works of Nabokov and Woolf engagingly, frequently by means of a minute deconstruction of the way in which certain images and symbols are organised. Without doubt, the book opens up a new avenue of possibilities in the study of these authors, at the same time as it points towards a reconsideration of Woolf beyond the frequently too narrow literary categories.» (Isabel M. Andrés, Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43, 2013)
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- PublisherPeter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3631619553
- ISBN 13 9783631619551
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages247
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Originalhardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 247 S. ; 22 cm Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - Table of contents -- References and Abbreviations 6 -- Simplified US Library o f Congress Transliteration System 8 -- Acknowledgements 9 -- Preface 13 -- Introduction 18 -- An overview o f criticism 18 -- Biographical and cultural background: tracing the common roots 24 -- Part I: Signs and Symbols 36 -- 1. "Not text, but texture": repetition and recursive patterning 3 6 -- 1.1. The Waves: obsessive patterning 36 -- 1.2. The pattern o f destiny in The Defense 41 -- 1.3. The problems o f the Doppelganger structures 5 8 -- 2. "Topsy-turvical coincidence": masked and exposed connections 62 -- 2.1. "Gogolian" diversion 62 -- 2.2. Encrypted connections: names as anagrams and deleted sub-texts 68 -- 2.3. Pattern at the transcendental level 7 4 -- 2.4. Associative games: the lost-and-found and transformations 7 9 -- 2.5. From the boarding house to the lighthouse: the mock symbolism 87 -- Part II: Unwritten novels, authors, characters and readers 97 -- 3. Involution and the Character 97 -- 3.1. King, Queen, Knave: involution through authorial markers 97 -- 3.2. Early experiments with involution: the cinema theme in Mary 104 -- 3.3. The Author as the Angel o f death: Bernard and the lady in the garden 109 -- 4. M i s e e n a b t m e 113 -- 4.1. Between the Acts: inventing the audience 113 -- 4.2. "Any soul may be yours": readers/characters as impersonators 127 -- 5. Un-writing the novel 142 -- 5.1. "An Unwritten Novel": character's autonomy and all-inclusive narratives 142 -- 5.2. The dystopia o f textual power: Invitation to a Beheading 148 -- Part III: Involute Abode: Space, Time and Matter 158 -- 6. "The unsubstantial Territory" and its "Solid Objects" - Observing the Space 158 -- 6.1. Setting the scene: double-mapping the space 158 -- 6.2. Investigating the scene 168 -- 6.3. Observing the observer 175 -- 7. The T w o Imposters, Space and Time 180 -- 7.1. Despair: the sinister space 180 -- 7.2. Camera Obscura: the dark prison o f involuted space 191 -- 7.3. Space as fate 196 -- 7.4. Nabokov's double monster: Space and Time 200 -- 7.5. Perception and memory: the town o f Zembre and Bergson's spiral 205 -- 7.6. "Time Passes": the pure space and "joke with nothingness" 210 -- Conclusion 216 -- Illustrations 219 -- Bibliography 222 -- I. Primary sources 222 -- II. Secondary sources 225 -- Index ISBN 9783631619551 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 1076905
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