Nabokov's World: Volume 2: Reading Nabokov

by Arnold McMillin (Editor), P. Meyer (Editor)

Overview

Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333964170
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/18/2001
Series:	Studies in Russia and East Europe , #2
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

DAVID BELLOS Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University BRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of Auckland NEIL CORNWELL Professor Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol JOHN BURT-FOSTER JR Professor of English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia CATRIONA KELLY Reader in Russian New College, Oxford MARIA MALIKOVA Post-Graduate Student, The Institute of Russian Literature, St Petersburg MICHAEL MEYLAC Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Antillas and French Guyana, Cayenne DALE E. PETERSON Professor of English and Russian, Amherst College ELLEN PIFER Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Delaware VERA PROSKURINA Visiting Professor, Cornell University JOHN QUINN Consultant Physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians SUSAN ELIZABETH SWEENEY Associate Professor of English, Holy Cross College RACHEL TROUSDALE Graduate Student, Yale University MICHAEL WOOD Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton

Table of Contents

Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: Reading Nabokov; J.Grayson Nabokov: A Centennial Toast; B.Boyd V.V. Nabokov and V.D. Nabokov: His Father's Voice; M.Malikova Nabokov's Exegi Monumentum : Immortality in Quotation Marks (Nabokov, Pushkin and Mikhail Gershenzon); V.Proskurina Intertextuality and (Meta)poesis: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's 'Seven Poems': M.Meylac White (K)Nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories; D.E.Peterson Looking at Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art and the Ballets Russes; S.E.Sweeney Paintings, Governesses, and 'Publishing Scoundrels': Nabokov and Henry James; N.Cornwell Nabokov, Snobism, and Selfhood in Pnin; C.Kelly Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats; J.Burt-Foster, Jr Broken Dates: Proust, Nabokov and Modern Time; M.Wood 'Did She Have a Precursor?': Lolita and Edith Wharton's The Children; E.Pifer How Did They Ever Make a Painting of Lolita?; J.D.Quin Transformations of Memory: Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Merrill; R.Trousdale The Real Hound: The Real Knight; P.Meyer VN/GP: Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Work of Georges Perec; D.Bellos Select Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers.' - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown

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