The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter by Grant, Paul Benedict

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles...
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Author: Paul Benedict Grant
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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter by Grant, Paul Benedict

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

$448.28

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

$448.28
Author: Paul Benedict Grant
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.

Author: Paul Benedict Grant
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 09/30/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781399519212

About the Author

Paul Benedict Grant is an Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. In addition to his many publications on Nabokov's humour, he has written on humour in the work of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor, and is co-editor of Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver (2011).


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