Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011336, Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:15:50 -0700

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Fwd: Nabokov's Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Affinities
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Cowley?

Carolyn

> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:56:01 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Mick Glynn: Dissertation-A novelist of Delusion:
> Vladimir Nabokov's Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Affinities
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> A non-expert question:
> Nabokov, in "Ada" seems to ridicule Parnassian poets ( through Mlle Ida
> Monparnasse and her best-selling rivers of diamonds plus the insistence on
> "mount Ida" or "Parnassus" where all the muses lived - and I think Cowley
> was included in this group). Would this critical attitude on VN´s part
> indicate a special positioning of his toward the Symbolist poets?
>

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