Vladimir Nabokov : the American years / by Boyd, Brian, 1952-

Vladimir Nabokov : the American years / by Boyd, Brian, 1952-

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Vladimir Nabokov in context /

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Evil Twins and the Ultimate Insight : Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and the Polarized Politics of Reading / by Stone, Bruce

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Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita / by Ladenson, Elisabeth

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Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita / by Ladenson, Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins -- Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of art -- Vladimir Nabokov : lolitigation.…”

Transatlantic aliens : modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America / by Norman, Will, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…James and Theodor Adorno -- The yankee from Berlin: George Grosz -- The big empty: Raymond Chandler's transatlantic modernism -- The taste of freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the intellectual road trip -- Saul Steinberg's vanishing trick: modernism, the state, and the cosmopolitan intellectual -- Conclusion: not to grin is a sin.…”

The American roadside in émigré literature, film, and photography 1955-1985 / by Court, Elsa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: By the Way - The Roadside as Other Space -- "Stationary Trivialities": Life on the Margins in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) -- "Roadside Eye": Accidents and Epiphanies in Robert Frank's The Americans (1958) -- "We're All in Our Private Traps": Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and the Decline of the American Motel -- Roadside Chronicles: Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) -- Conclusion: America Revisited.…”

Transatlantic aliens : modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America / by Norman, Will, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…James and Theodor Adorno -- The yankee from Berlin: George Grosz -- The big empty: Raymond Chandler's transatlantic modernism -- The taste of freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the intellectual road trip -- Saul Steinberg's vanishing trick: modernism, the state, and the cosmopolitan intellectual -- Conclusion: not to grin is a sin.…”
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Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation / by Monroe, William Frank, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Eliot's gnostic impulse -- "Lords and owners" : Vladimir Nabokov's sequestered imagination -- "The basest weed" : Donald Barthelme's parabolic fairy tale.…”

Autumn light : illuminations of age /

The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction / by Worthington, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. …”

The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction / by Worthington, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. …”
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Faces in the crowd : players and writers / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Elmore Leonard] ; The jilting of Katherine Anne Porter ; Vlad the impaler [Vladimir Nabokov] ; A face in the crowd [Elias Canetti] ; Scat song [Kurt Vonnegut] ; Zuckerman strikes back [Philip Roth] ; Senses and sensibility [Eudora Welty] ; Appendectomy [William Faulkner] ; Fathers and son [Martin Williams, Whitney Balliet, Gunther Schuller]…”

Cold War American literature and the rise of youth culture : children of empire / by Jonnes, Denis, 1949-

From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds : the Memoirs of Irwin Weil. by Irwin Weil; Tony Brown

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Censored : a literary history of subversion and control / by Fellion, Matthew, 1985-, Inglis, Katherine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- The Land of Spies by Kate O'Brien -- Black Boy by Richard Wright -- 'The Orphan', Shock SuspenStories No. 14 by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Jack Kamen --Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -- OZ 28: Schoolkids edition by Richard Neville, Felix Dennis, Jim Anderson, and Guest editors -- Black Voices from Prison by Etheridge Knight and incarcerated men at Indiana State Prison -- 'The Love that Dares to Speak its Name' in Gay News by James Kirkup -- Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin by Susanne Bösche -- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie -- Hit man by Rex Feral -- Beijing Coma by Ma Jian -- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi -- Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa.…”

Censored : a literary history of subversion and control / by Fellion, Matthew, Inglis, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- The Land of Spies by Kate O'Brien -- Black Boy by Richard Wright -- 'The Orphan', Shock SuspenStories No. 14 by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Jack Kamen -- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -- OZ 28: Schoolkids edition by Richard Neville, Felix Dennis, Jim Anderson, and Guest editors -- Black Voices from Prison by Etheridge Knight and incarcerated men at Indiana State Prison -- 'The Love that Dares to Speak its Name' in Gay News by James Kirkup -- Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin by Susanne Bösche -- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie -- Hit man by Rex Feral -- Beijing Coma by Ma Jian -- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi -- Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa.…”
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The shape of fiction; British and American short stories by Hamalian, Leo, Karl, Frederick R. 1927-2004

The Wedding Complex : Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture / by Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

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