TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karshan,Thomas
TI  - Vladimir Nabokov and the art of play
T2  - Oxford English monographs
SN  - 9780191725333 (ebook) :
AV  - PG3476.N3 
U1  - 891.7342 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
KW  - Play in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - eflch
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In a 1925 speech, Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts and domestic puns.' Thomas Karshan draws on early writings and archival material to argue that play is Nabokov's signature theme, and that his novels form one of the most sophisticated treatments of play ever achieved
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603985.001.0001
ER  -