Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts (2021)

Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts Dragunoiu Dana Wydawca: Northwestern University Press Data wydania: 2021 ISBN: 9780810144002 Liczba stron: 280 Format: 159 x 235 x 26 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: Shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. Dana Dragunoiu reads Nabokov s fictional worlds as battlegrounds between an autonomous will and heteronomous passions, demonstrating Nabokov s insistence that genuinely moral acts occur when the will triumphs over the passions by answering the call of duty.