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Figurations of exile in hitchcock and nabokov ebook, 2008. 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 counters this critical gap by reading reallife exile as the absent cause of alfred hitchcocks and vladimir nabokovs brilliant virtuosity. Figurations of exile in hitchcock and nabokov by barbara straumann. Figurations of exile in hitchcock and nabokov on jstor. Transitions in nabokov studies will norman, university of. Figurations of exile in hitchcock and nabokov by barbara. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Barbara straumann edinburgh university press books.

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She is currently working on a book on female performer voices. This book is aimed at those with an interest in nabokov. In nabokovs lolita and burgesss a clockwork orange controversial. Straumann closely reads speak, memory, lolita, the real life of sebastian knight, suspicion, north by northwest, and shadow of a doubt, exploring the connections between language, imagination, and exile. The unethical firstperson narrative paradoxically makes the book. Discusses psychoanalysis both as a critical approach and as a crucial reference point for the cinematic and literary texts themselves. Brings an entirely new perspective to the work of hitchcock and nabokov. Figurations of exile in hitchcock and nabokov book, 2008. Barbara straumanns 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 and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. We learn, for example, that belonging to a book club will not help you, and neither will 2 aspiring to be an. Figurations of exile in hitchcock and nabokov core. Barbara straumann this book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration.