Nabokov The Mystery of Literary Structures

<p>Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as ""a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."" Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to...

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Main Author: Toker, Leona (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 1989
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