Fine lines : Vladimir Nabokov's scientific art
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- ISBN: 9780300194555
- ISBN: 0300194552
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xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm - Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Anatomical diagrams -- Introduction -- Black and white figures -- Color plates -- Essays. Drawing with words : the toothwort white and related natural history motifs in Pale fire / Robert Dirig -- A few notes on Nabokov's childhood entomology / Victor Fet -- Chance, nature's practical jokes, and the "non-utilitarian delights" of butterfly mimicry / Victoria N. Alexander -- Nabokov's evolution / James Mallet -- Fictional realism : scaling the twin peaks of art and science / Dorion Sagan -- Mountains of detail : on the trail with Nabokov's blues / Lauren K. Lucas, Matthew L. Forister, James A. Fordyce, and Chris C. Nice -- Nabokov's morphology : an experiment in appropriated terminology / Stephen H. Blackwell -- Swift and underwing, boulderfield and bog : how Nabokov drew the world from its details / Robert Michael Pyle -- Enchanted hunting : Lolita and Lolita, Diana and diana / Brian Boyd -- Nabokov's notes and labels from the Museum of Comparative Zoology : boon for a recondite biographer or data for a serious systematist? / Naomi E. Pierce, Rodney Eastwood, Roger Vila, Andrew Berry, and Thomas Dai -- Chronology of Nabokov's life. |
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Subject: | Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 Knowledge Lepidopterology Butterflies Pictorial works Butterflies Anatomy Pictorial works Zoological illustration Butterflies Classification |
Genre: | Illustrated works. Pictorial works. Illustrated works. |
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