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This is an official publication of the International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium proceedings. Most papers published on this website are in English. Several scholars requested that their papers, delivered in Russian, were published in the original. Papers in English are accompanied by their summaries in Russian and visa versa. Some of the papers delivered at the Nabokov Symposium will be published in a Russian-language collection; its publication is scheduled for the summer/fall 2003.

Several VNS participants have requested that the publication of their work online were postponed. In such cases, we published only abstracts of their papers in both languages. Most scholars have placed their e-mail address at the end of the paper for questions and comments.

All authors retain copyright to their work. For the permission to reproduce any of the papers in whole or in part please contact individual authors. If you have any questions about this publication, please write to Olga Voronina, editor of the VNS Proceedings, at info@nabokovinrussia.org.


General Session:

Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Nabokov as Storyteller

Alexander Dolinin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Stories Hidden Inside the Plot (An Approach to Vladimir Nabokov's Poetics of Concealment)

Donald Barton Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"Signs & Symbols": Nabokov & Iconicity

Boris Averin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Experiments with One's Own Selves in Nabokov's Russian and American Fiction

Alexander Zholkovsky, University of Southern California, USA
On the Genre of Nabokov's First Poem

Samuel Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA
"A poem, a poem, forsooth:" Immortality and Transformation in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Nabokov's Novels


Nabokov and the United States:

Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts, Cornell University, USA
Tongue the Punchinello (A Commentary to Pnin)

Galya Diment, University of Washington, USA
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Pnin in the Land of the North Americans

Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Perversion in Pnin

Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee, USA
Aubrey Beardsley and Lolita

Sarah Funke, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., USA
"Mirages and Nightmares": The Narrative Lessons of Lolita from Novel to Script to Screen

Jenefer Coates, Middlesex University, London, UK
La Morte d'Humbert -Nabokov's Medieval Texts

Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College, USA
Vladimir Nabokov's Impact on American Post-Modernists: The Case of John Hawkes

Paul Benedict Grant, University of Glasgow, UK
Nabokov and Transcendentalism

Juliette Taylor, University of Warwick, UK
Nabokov's Aesthetic of Mistranslation

Corinne Scheiner, Colorado College, USA
In Place of a Preface: Reading the Opening Chapter of Laughter in the Dark as a Foreword to the English Translation


St. Petersburg and Russia in Nabokov's Oeuvre:

Sergei Davydov, Middlebury College, USA
Shishki on Adam's Head: Literary Hoaxes by Khodasevich and Nabokov

Yuichi Isahaya, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Nabokov and Georgiy Ivanov -Two Conflicting Petersburgs

Ole Nyegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
On Bely's and Nabokov's Use of Space in Fiction

Dana Dragunoiu, Princeton University, USA
Russian Neo-Idealism and Vladimir Nabokov's Philosophical Domain

Olga Voronina, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dream as a Structural Device in Pushkin, Tolstoy and Nabokov

Stanislav Shvabrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Vladimir Vladimirovich N., Ivan Petrovich Pnin: an Earlier Encounter?

Vera Polischouk, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Under the Badge of Nabokov (VN's Influence on Modern Russian Literature)

Agnes Edel-Roy, University of Paris III, Censier, France
The Meaning of Russianness in the Fictional System of Some of Nabokov's "Russian" Novels

Alexei Sklyarenko, Independent Researcher, St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian Subtexts in Ada: Allusions to Konstantin Sluchevsky's Work


Beyond Nabokov's Metaphysics:

Michael Wood, Princeton University, USA
The Politics of Zembla

Igor Smirnov, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany
Samozvantsy [Impostors] in Nabokov's Despair

Julian Connolly, University of Virginia, USA
The Elemental Nabokov: The Role of Natural Elements in Nabokov's Fiction

Yuri Leving, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov's Automobile Aesthetics

Liudmila Ryaguzova, Kuban' State University, Russia
Substantial and Ontological Foundations of Nabokov's Fiction

Jacqueline Hamrit, Universite Charles-de-Gaulle, France
Nabokov and French Thought


Nabokov's Butterflies:

Dieter Zimmer, Translator / Editor / Commentator of Nabokov, Berlin, Germany
Chinese Rhubarb and Caterpillars

Victoria Alexander, Dactyl Foundation, Santa Fe Institute, USA Neutral Evolution, Teleology and Nabokov on Insect Mimicry


Poster Papers:

Margarit Tadevosyan, Boston College, USA
" Thou Are Not Thou": Nabokov and Evelyn Waugh

Daniela Monica Oancea, The University of Paris 7, France
A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Vladimir Nabokov and Steven Millhauser

Anita Kondoyanidi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Transcendence of Exile: Nabokov's St. Petersburg

Christoph Henry-Thommes, University of Mainz, Germany
Nabokov's Neoplatonist Views of "This World" and "The Other World" in
His Poem "Death"

Juliette de Dieuleveult, Sorbonne University, France
Proustian echoes in Nabokov's novels : in search of the truth of art


Presentation:

Dieter Zimmer, Berlin, Germany
Nabokov's Berlin