New Worlds of Words: Vladimir Nabokov's Fairy Tales

dc.contributor.advisor	Sigman, Joseph	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Oberfrank, Adam	en_US
dc.contributor.department	English	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T16:54:19Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T16:54:19Z
dc.date.created	2011-09-29	en_US
dc.date.issued	1985-02	en_US
dc.description.abstract	<p>It was Vladimir Nabokov's contention that all fictional works are fantastic in nature, and that any novel can be considered a type of fairy tale. Emphasizing that aspect of his own fiction are the numerous allusions to tales such as "Cinderella" and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that appear in his texts. Nabokov's novels portray characters who transform their lives into illusory fantasies. Ultimately, characters like Humbert Humbert, Van, and Kinbote are themselves artist-figures, who turn reality into fantasy through the process of writing.</p>	en_US
dc.description.degree	Master of Arts (MA)	en_US
dc.identifier.other	opendissertations/6305	en_US
dc.identifier.other	7392	en_US
dc.identifier.other	2265244	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11330
dc.subject	English Language and Literature	en_US
dc.subject	English Language and Literature	en_US
dc.title	New Worlds of Words: Vladimir Nabokov's Fairy Tales	en_US
dc.type	thesis	en_US

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