Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov.
Title:
Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov.
Author:
Straumann, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780748636471
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
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.
Abstract:
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 by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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