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Lectures on Literature

Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson

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For nearly twenty years, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures on Mansfield Park by Jane Austen , Bleak House by Charles Dickens , Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson , Swann's Way by Marcel Proust , " The Metamorphosis " by Franz Kafka , and Ulysses by James Joyce . Nabokov reveals how these masterpieces work; above all, he teaches us how to read them. Professor Fredson Bowers has edited the lectures from Nabokov's hand-written manuscripts ad teaching copies of his books, providing a text that evokes his distinctive classroom style and the brilliance of his personality. Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.

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Lectures on Literature, John Updike, Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov, Fredson Bowers

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1980
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Titre
Lectures on Literature
Sous-titre
Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson
Langue
Anglais
Format
rigide
Pages
385
ISBN10
0297778528
ISBN13
9780297778523
Séries
Évaluation
4,35 sur 5
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For nearly twenty years, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures on Mansfield Park by Jane Austen , Bleak House by Charles Dickens , Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson , Swann's Way by Marcel Proust , " The Metamorphosis " by Franz Kafka , and Ulysses by James Joyce . Nabokov reveals how these masterpieces work; above all, he teaches us how to read them. Professor Fredson Bowers has edited the lectures from Nabokov's hand-written manuscripts ad teaching copies of his books, providing a text that evokes his distinctive classroom style and the brilliance of his personality. Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.