The Quill and the Scalpel Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science |
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| Author:
| Blackwell, Stephen H. |
| Translator:
| Polishchuk, Vera |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64469-807-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 2022 |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refractions of physics, psychology, and biology within his art and thought, The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science,by Stephen H. Blackwell, demonstrates how aesthetic sensibilities contributed to Nabokov's scientific work, and how his scientific passions shape, inform, and permeate his fictions
Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refractions of physics, psychology, and biology within his art and thought, The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science,by Stephen H. Blackwell, demonstrates how aesthetic sensibilities contributed to Nabokov's scientific work, and how his scientific passions shape, inform, and permeate his fictions