''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses

- 442
-
NOTES to PNIN
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin, (Heinemann, London,
31960).
R. H. W. Dillard, "Not Text but Texture: The Novels
of Vladimir Nabokov", The Hollins Critic, Vol. III,
Nr. 3 (June 1966), p. 10.
Douglas Fowler, Reading Nabokov, (London, 1974),
p. 122.
Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of
Vladimir Nabokov, (New York, 1966), p. 97.
Andrew Field, Nabokov, His Life in Art,
(London, 1967), p. 133.
Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics, p. 101.
Elder Olson, The Theory of Comedy, (Bloomington,
London, 1968), p. 19.
Op. cit., p. 64.
Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning
of the Comic, Authorized Translation by C. Brereton
and F. Rothwell, (London, 1935), passim.
Elder Olson, The Theory of Comedy, p. 13.
Op. cit., p. 12.
Op. cit., p. 20.
12 Op. cit., p. 12.
13 Op. cit., p. 20.
14 Op. cit., p. 18.
15
16
17
18
19
20
Andrew Field, Nabokov, pp. 139ff.
Elder Olson, The Theory of Comedy, p. 64.
Henri Bergson, Laughter, p. 14.
Elder Olson, The Theory of Comedy, p. 64.
An instance of what Bergson calls "inversion"
in which a situation or the roles of persons are
reversed.
Henri Bergson, Laughter, p. 95.
"... a comic character is generally comic in proportion
to his ignorance of himself. "
Henri Bergson, Laughter, p. 16.