Project

The author as reader. The poetics of Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature

Code

01D04108

Duration

01 October 2008 → 13 April 2013

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Jurgen Pieters

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Language studies not elsewhere classified
- Early modern literature
- Theory and methodology of language studies not elsewhere classified
- Theory and methodology of linguistics not elsewhere classified
- Literary criticism
- Other languages and literary studies not elsewhere classified

Keywords

poetics V. Nabokov theory of literature Dutch literature Literary studies

Project description

The project aims for an analysis of the poetical system that grounds Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, the classes on world literature which the author taught between 1941 and 1959 at the universities of Wellesley and Cornell. The central focus of the analysis lies with the interaction between the components author, reader and the autonomy of the literary text.