{"product_id":"the-humour-of-vladimir-nabokov-paul-benedict-grant-9781399519212","title":"The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter","description":"Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Benedict Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399519212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399519212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Paul Benedict Grant","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46199247896831,"sku":"9781399519212","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0fe595cb-64cf-4750-9938-dd432153995a.jpg?v=1727925493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-humour-of-vladimir-nabokov-paul-benedict-grant-9781399519212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}