Disenfranchised from America: Reinventing Language and Love in Nabokov and Pynchon

By Melissa Lam

This book explores the ways in which Nabokov and Pynchon manipulate fictional strategies to de-familiarize our perceptions of everyday objects and people. Estranging everyday perceptions allows us to more intensely examine critical issues of morality and identity that have become exhausted with over-examination to the point of clich .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761846190
• ISBN13: 9780761846192
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"