Figurations of exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov:
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1. Verfasser: Straumann, Barbara (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2008
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Beschreibung:Originally published as the author's doctoral dissertation--Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich in the winter semester 2004/05 on the recommendation of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen
Includes bibliographical references and index
This comparative study of Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Questions about the contingencies of history and the rupture of the real are hardly ever brought to bear on self-reflexive texts. Barbara Straumann counters this critical gap by reading real-life exile as the 'absent cause' of Alfred Hitchcock's and Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant virtuosity. Her 'cross-mapping' of the two seemingly disparate figures takes as its point of departure the conditions of e
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