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. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion,...
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008. |
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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.