Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College
Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.
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Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College
Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.
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Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College

Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College

by Maxim D. Shrayer (Editor)
Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College

Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College

by Maxim D. Shrayer (Editor)

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Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798887197319
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: 05/27/2025
Series: Immigrant Worlds & Texts
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish studies program. Shrayer is the author and editor of over thirty books of nonfiction, biography, fiction, poetry, and translations, most recently the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the collection of poetry Conductor from Zion Square. Shrayer has published four books about Vladimir Nabokov and regularly teaches Nabokov seminars at Boston College. His works have been translated into thirteen languages. For more information, visit www.shrayer.com
Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish studies program. Shrayer is the author and editor of over thirty books of nonfiction, biography, fiction, poetry, and translations, most recently the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the collection of poetry Conductor from Zion Square. Shrayer has published four books about Vladimir Nabokov and regularly teaches Nabokov seminars at Boston College. His works have been translated into thirteen languages. For more information, visit www.shrayer.com

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction: Nabokov on the Heights (and in Boston)

Maxim D. Shrayer


Nabokov in Boston: A Photo Essay

Matthew Lyberg


Angst and Asymptote: The Success Motif in Nabokov’s Fiction

Eric Weiskott


Unlimited Time: Visual Art and Temporality in Vladimir Nabokov’s “La Veneziana” and “The Visit to the Museum”

Megumi DeMond


Marriage and Its Discontents: Infidelity and Unhappiness in Vladimir Nabokov's Life and Art

Ciara Spencer


Joyce’s L. Bloom to Nabokov’s Cincinnatus C.: The Influence of Joyce’s Ulysses on Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading

Nina Khaghany


“That Skip-Space Piece”: Positioning the Knight in Nabokov’s Poetics

Nick Adler


Sharing Other Worlds: Companionship and Coauthorship in The Gift and Glory

Fiona Steacy 


Other (Dis)enchanted Motels: Nabokov’s Chronicles of Suburban America

Jared Hackworth


Questions of Style and Technique: Death and Immortality in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov

Katie Pelkey


Nabokov, the Poetics of Religious Conversion, and the Post-Shoah Reckoning

Maxim D. Shrayer


“She stands before me as a living child”: Aestheticism, Sentimentality, and Desire in Lolita

Kevin Ohi


Vladimir Nabokov and the Fruits of Fiction

Brendan McCourt


Negotiating Nabokov within America’s Political and Social Context

Samuel Peterson


Acknowledgments

Index of Names and Places

Contributors

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