The Web of Sense

Patterns of Involution in Selected Works of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov

von Irena Ksiezopolska

248 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is a comparative study of the early works of Vladimir Nabokov and the fictions of Virginia Woolf. The aim of this study was to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of a work, trapping and reinventing the reader. The work analyses the transgressive use of imagery, symbols, patterns and other textual devices. Studying these «dangerous games» with authors and readers, the book observes involution at work in the very structure of the fictional world, shaping its time, space and matter.

• Reihe: New Americanists in Poland
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9783631619551
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2012
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften