Vladimir Nabokov’s American years
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Vladimir Nabokov’s American years were the period during which the Russian-born novelist lived and worked in the United States, producing major works such as "Lolita" and teaching literature at American universities.
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| Vladimir Nabokov’s American years canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years Context triple: [Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), timePeriodCovered, Vladimir Nabokov’s American years]
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Target entity: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years Target entity description: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years were the period during which the Russian-born novelist lived and worked in the United States, producing major works such as "Lolita" and teaching literature at American universities.
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A.
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ is a large-scale installation by German artist Martin Kippenberger that transforms Kafka’s unfinished novel into a sprawling, absurdist landscape of office desks and interview stations, reflecting on bureaucracy, failure, and the art world.
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B.
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Idea of Order at Key West is a celebrated modernist poem by Wallace Stevens that meditates on the relationship between imagination, perception, and the natural world through the figure of a woman singing by the sea.
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C.
Moscow Journal
Moscow Journal was a late 18th-century Russian literary and cultural periodical associated with writer and historian Nikolai Karamzin, known for promoting sentimentalism and European-influenced literary trends in Russia.
-
D.
The Sense of the Past
The Sense of the Past is an unfinished time-travel novel by Henry James about a modern man who is mysteriously transported into early 19th-century London.
-
E.
The Theory of the Novel
The Theory of the Novel is a seminal early 20th-century work of literary theory that analyzes the historical development and philosophical significance of the novel as a modern epic form.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographical period
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literary period ⓘ |
| appliesToPerson | Vladimir Nabokov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDiscipline | lepidopterology ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution | Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
metafiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employer |
Cornell University
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Harvard University ⓘ Wellesley College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1961 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary criticism
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novel writing ⓘ short story writing ⓘ translation ⓘ university teaching ⓘ |
| hasAcademicActivity | research in lepidoptery ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfLiteraryProduction |
English
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Russian ⓘ |
| influenced |
American postwar fiction
ⓘ
campus novel tradition ⓘ |
| notableWorkProduced |
Bend Sinister
NERFINISHED
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Conclusive Evidence NERFINISHED ⓘ Lolita NERFINISHED ⓘ Nine Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Pale Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Pnin NERFINISHED ⓘ Speak, Memory NERFINISHED ⓘ Strong Opinions NERFINISHED ⓘ The Enchanter (English translation) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Real Life of Sebastian Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
lecturer in European literature
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lecturer in Russian literature ⓘ professor of Russian literature ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
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Ithaca, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ Wellesley, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
critical and commercial success of Lolita
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development of butterfly research at American institutions ⓘ emigration from Europe to the United States in 1940 ⓘ naturalization as a U.S. citizen ⓘ publication of Lolita in the United States ⓘ transition from academic to full-time writer ⓘ |
| startTime | 1940 ⓘ |
| taughtCourse |
European fiction
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Masterpieces of European fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian literature in translation ⓘ Russian poetry ⓘ |
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