Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748636464); This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory , Lolita , The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , Suspicion , North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the princip