GESTURE AND UNINTENTIONALITY OF “THE VANE SISTERS” (1951) Cover Image

Gesto a nezáměrnost „Sester Vaneových“ (1951)
GESTURE AND UNINTENTIONALITY OF “THE VANE SISTERS” (1951)

Author(s): Richard Müller
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Vladimir Nabokov;Jan Mukařovský;semantic gesture;unintentionality;mediality

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov’s story “The Vane Sisters” in the light of Jan Mukařovský’s concepts of semantic gesture and unintentionality (nezáměrnost). At the same time, medial implications of Nabokov’s text are recognized, forcing a certain modification of the aforementioned concepts, taking into account the phenomenon of medial self-reflectivity.

  • Issue Year: XXX/2020
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 94-105
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech