Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College

Book Overview

Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F2Y8D44S
• ISBN13: 9798897830060
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"