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Maiden on Man’s Laps. From the History of Russian Rousseauism [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2020 The concept of romantic love directed towards a young bride is an ideological construction in the history of European culture as manifested in works of Rousseau, Novalis, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Ilya Vinitsky
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Дискурс, 2021 Introduction. This research aims at analyzing the novel by Vladimir Nabokov Transparent Things (1972) from the perspective of post-modernist philosophy.
N. F. Shcherbak
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(Un)uttered mystery of existence in V. Nabokov’ short stories “The Word” and “The Thunderstorm”
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ., 2021 The article is devoted to identifying the poetological and semantic features of V. Nabokov’ short stories “The Word” and “The Thunderstorm”. The analysis of the first of them is directly connected with the theme of verbal art, important to Nabokov, which
Eugene Makhankov
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Noûs, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 877-904, December 2023., 2023 Abstract A long‐standing aim of cinema – in particular of ‘extreme’, ‘unwatchable’ or ‘feel‐ bad’ cinema – has been to acquaint viewers with extreme suffering. In this article I first offer an explication of that aim in terms of recent work in philosophy of mind, then exploit the resulting framework to examine claims to the effect that a new ...
Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo
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How Stephen King writes and why: Language, immersion, emotion
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 5, Page 353-367, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Many successful novelists offer writing advice, but do they actually follow it themselves? And if so, can it truly account for the success of their novels? We dissect and examine three pieces of writing advice from Stephen King's book On Writing (2000). King counsels writers to (1) write in a simple language to aid readers' narrative immersion;
Marc Hye‐Knudsen +2 more
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Ghar ki tension: domesticity and distress in India's aspiring middle class
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 573-592, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Tension is a polysemic term used across South Asia to describe the strains and scrapes of life, like ‘worry’ or ‘stress’ in Euro‐American discourse. Yet in the formerly agro‐pastoralist and upwardly mobile Gaddi community of Himalayan India, it is used by women with the qualifying ghar ki – ‘household’ – to indicate a deeper disruption to ...
Nikita Simpson
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Nabokov, Dostoevski, Proust: Despair
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2004 Although Nabokov criticism has long identified Despair with Dostoevski, critics have for the most part addressed Despair in terms of how it either attacks or validates Dostoevski and thus have understood Nabokov to be speaking primarily about ...
Timothy L. Parrish
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 429-441, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Tracy Llanera places Richard Rorty in conversation with philosophers confronting nihilism as a “malaise of modernity.” She shows how Rortyan thought offers a horizontal and relational approach to “redemption,” as opposed to religious or philosophical paths to be saved by higher beings or ideas ...
Elin Danielsen Huckerby
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Vladimir Nabokov - purysta językowy / Vladimir Nabokov - a linguistic purist [PDF]
Language, Culture, Politics, 2021 Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American writer who wrote in two languages, Russian and English, is one of the most outstanding writers of the twentieth century.
Monika Grygiel
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The Return of ‘Our’ Nabokov [PDF]
Index on Censorship, 1987 More and more of Vladimir Nabokov's works are being published officially in the Soviet Union—but not without resistance from the old guard.
D. Barton Johnson, S. Golburgh Johnson
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