Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov.

This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North b...

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Author / Creator:	Straumann, Barbara.
Format:	eBook Electronic
Language:	English
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Hitchcock, Alfred, > 1899-1980 > Criticism and interpretation. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977 > Criticism and interpretation. Exiles in literature. Exiles in motion pictures. Emigration and immigration in literature. Emigration and immigration in motion pictures. Electronic books.
Local Note:	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I Nabokov's Dislocations
Chapter 2 Refiguring Loss and Exile in Speak, Memory
Chapter 3 'Aesthetic Bliss' and Its Allegorical Displacements in Lolita
Part II Hitchcock's Wanderings
Chapter 4 Inhabiting Feminine Suspicion
Chapter 5 Wandering and Assimilation in North by Northwest
Chapter 6 Epilogue: Psychoanalytic Dislocation
Bibliography
Index.

Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov.

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