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Poetics of Exilic NostalgiaOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This dissertation investigated how Vladimir Nabokov’s experience as an exiled writer could formulate the nostalgic features experienced by his exiled fictional characters in Mary (1926), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941), and Pale Fire (1962). Accordingly, the main objective of the current study was to trace and explore the poetics of nostalgia in Nabokov’s three selected novels. For this purpose, the first chapter of the current study sorted out and restated the essential tenets of nostalgia. The second chapter explored how nostalgia in Mary demonized present and idealized past. The third chapter investigated how nostalgia in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight confirmed the idea that nostalgic souls may faint yet never die. The fourth chapter demonstrated how nostalgic exiles could translate their dissatisfaction with exile life into a nagging quest for virtual existence. At the end, the study concluded that Nabokov did not impose certain nostalgia tenets on his fictional characters. His fictional characters attempted to adopt, adapt, and generate the poetics of nostalgia that fits their own individual exile experience. In a word, Nabokov added some distinct innovative features to theories of nostalgia.