No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett

by Mark Axelrod

Book Overview

In Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, he writes: "Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash." The essays in No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett use Nabokov's stylistic approach to well-known texts (fiction, drama and criticism) as a point of departure. Notions of style and structure link the three prose pieces discussed in the text, (Beckett, Smart, and Turgenev, ) to the fiction and drama...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137456094
• ISBN13: 9781137456090
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"