Pale fire, Nabokov's art, and Shakespeare's magic / Gerard de Vries.
| Author/creator | Vries, Gerard de author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | x, 62 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge focus on literature Routledge focus on literature. |
| Contents | 1 Hamlet's ghost -- 2 Macbeth -- 3 Timon of Athens -- 4 Shakespeare and daughters -- 5 From Shakespeare to Ovid -- 6 Haze's March winds -- 7 Hazel and her parents. |
| Abstract | "This manuscript examines Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, widely regarded as his most challenging and critically acclaimed work. While Lolita remains Nabokov's best-known novel, Pale Fire has generated the most sustained scholarly attention and interpretive debate among literary critics. Existing scholarship on Shakespeare's influence in Pale Fire has remained narrowly focused on Timon of Athens, the source of the novel's title. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of all fifty-one Shakespearean references throughout the text, examining the complete range of plays to which Nabokov alludes. Through systematic investigation of these intertextual connections, this work demonstrates that Nabokov's deployment of Shakespearean imagery functions as a crucial interpretive key to the novel's central concerns. The analysis reveals how Shakespeare's presence illuminates three fundamental themes in Pale Fire: the novel's autobiographical dimensions, the protagonist's quest for immortality, and the tragedy of Hazel Shade, the work's tragic heroine. By tracing these Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights into the novel's complex thematic architecture and demonstrates how literary allusion operates as both aesthetic strategy and meaning-making device in one of twentieth-century literature's most enigmatic masterworks"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "Routledge Focus" -- from cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Vries, Gerard de Pale fire, Nabokov's art and Shakespeare's magic New York, NY : Routledge, 2026 9781003755265 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781040879344 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2026003682 |
| ISBN | 9781041276098 |
| ISBN | 1041276095 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781041276111 paperback |
| ISBN | 1041276117 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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