Dandyism, humour and laughter in Vladimir Nabokov's novels In this article, we try to demonstrate the methodological effectiveness of the notion of "dandyism", very useful for the study of Russian culture, as applied to those of the Nabokovian novels which manipulate in a more or less grotesque and witty perspective the clichés borrowed from melodrama ("movie style") and in which the voice of an ironic narrator-observer is distinctly heard (King, Queen, Knave; Laughter in the Dark; Pnin, etc.). These novels may be regarded as a scene where two adversaries are confronted: the dandy narrator whose multiple estranged projections fill the story and the "naive hero" trapped by the narrative cliché. The article develops various aspects of this c...
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Vladimir Nabokov and russian ornemental prose That Nabokov as a Russian writer was formed within th...
[[abstract]]This thesis aims to provide an alternative reading of laughter in Milan Kundera’s The Bo...
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The article is aimed to trace some significant parallels between Nabokov’s Russian prose and drama, ...
“Pošlost´”, Hegelian Syllogism and the Proverb: A Paremiological Approach to Vladimir Nabokov's Laug...
The author of the present study deals with the wider understanding of humour going back to Hippocrat...
The article analyzes the phenomenon of laughter, especially the laughter of the Soviet people. Basin...
Was Nabokov a literary misogynist? The essay explores Nabokov's attitude toward women authors as ex...
Cas unique dans l'oeuvre de Nabokov, Camera Obscura et Laughter in the Dark sont issus de la même ma...
The article revises the view that the concept of “carnival” (one of the main contributions of M. M....
The present article is an attempt to answer the question why the theatre art of Dominique Bréda enti...
Vladimir Nabokov's creation is characterized by the recurrence of an original complex narrative orga...
The subject of the article is the analysis of the image of Kiev, presented in Mikhail Bulgakov’s feu...
The present article addresses the problem of the context’s contribution to the readers’ perception o...
Vladimir Nabokov and russian ornemental prose That Nabokov as a Russian writer was formed within th...
[[abstract]]This thesis aims to provide an alternative reading of laughter in Milan Kundera’s The Bo...
This article interrogates the interrelationship between cruelty, suffering, and laughter in novels b...
The article is devoted to one of the most common stylistic devices for creating a comic effect – iro...
The article is aimed to trace some significant parallels between Nabokov’s Russian prose and drama, ...
“Pošlost´”, Hegelian Syllogism and the Proverb: A Paremiological Approach to Vladimir Nabokov's Laug...
The author of the present study deals with the wider understanding of humour going back to Hippocrat...
The article analyzes the phenomenon of laughter, especially the laughter of the Soviet people. Basin...
Was Nabokov a literary misogynist? The essay explores Nabokov's attitude toward women authors as ex...
Cas unique dans l'oeuvre de Nabokov, Camera Obscura et Laughter in the Dark sont issus de la même ma...
The article revises the view that the concept of “carnival” (one of the main contributions of M. M....
The present article is an attempt to answer the question why the theatre art of Dominique Bréda enti...
Vladimir Nabokov's creation is characterized by the recurrence of an original complex narrative orga...
The subject of the article is the analysis of the image of Kiev, presented in Mikhail Bulgakov’s feu...
The present article addresses the problem of the context’s contribution to the readers’ perception o...
Vladimir Nabokov and russian ornemental prose That Nabokov as a Russian writer was formed within th...
[[abstract]]This thesis aims to provide an alternative reading of laughter in Milan Kundera’s The Bo...