Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0015012, Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:59:26 +0000

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Re: V. Fet re: E. Darwin's poem
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On 4/3/07 15:35, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:

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> Subject: RE: [NABOKV-L] S.S. re: E. Darwin's poem
> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:22:29 -0500
> From: Fet, Victor <fet@MARSHALL.EDU> <mailto:fet@MARSHALL.EDU>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> References: A <45E9DF9B.70005@utk.edu> <mailto:45E9DF9B.70005@utk.edu>
>>>> >>>what other works containing important parts written in verse and in
>>>> prose we could
> compare with PF?
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> Why not "Hamlet", for instance? I know nothing of the literary theory one can
> put behind it, but one can claim that its (and other Shakespearian plays)
> structure profoundly affected poetry/prose combinations. We have so many
> Shakespeare/Hamlet influences in VN in general and PF specifically, hidden and
> not (including its very title), that PF "format" itself could be seen as one
> of those.
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> Victor Fet
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> Dear Victor: we also have THE PLAY WITHIN THE PLAY! Signs of WS mocking the
> more bombastic elements of Elizabethan drama? ‹ in spite of Hamlet¹s Œdon¹t
> over-act¹ warnings to the visiting players.
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle


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