Nabokov's Third-Person Selves

Authors

James Morrison, Claremont McKenna CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Literature (CMC)

Publication Date

1992

Abstract

Many previous efforts to come to terms with the problem of autonomous consciousness and of self-construction in Nabokov's work have done so in the sphere of psychoanalysis, and have therefore found it necessary to make a foray into Nabokov's tireless polemic against the school of thought. Perhaps, however, an examination of what may be called "the third-person self" provides a way of apprehending Nabokov's conception and representations of consciousness in such a way that a detour through that well-travelled territory may be avoided.

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Recommended Citation

Morrison, James. “Nabokov’s Third-Person Selves.” Philological Quarterly 71.4 (Fall 1992): 495-509.