Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic : A Study of his Novels and Plays, 1926-1939 (Paperback, New ed)

CONTENTS: Ideology and the Ideological Aesthetic ? The Ruthless Schemers of Tomsk and Atomsk: The Man from the USSR and The Waltz Invention ? Bits of My Past Litter the Floor: Ideology, Epistemology, and the ≪Modernism of Underdevelopment≫ in The Eye and Despair ? ≪Violin in a Void≫: Totalitarianism on Trial in Invitation to a Beheading ? My Kingdom: The Formation of the Ideological Aesthetic in The Gift ? The Absolute Solution: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the Ideology of Aesthetic Autonomy ? Ideology as Aesthetic: The Aesthetic as Ideology.