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EDITOR's NOTE. Nabokov's centenary in 1999 was marked by several
international conferences. The proceedings of Jane Grayson's "Nabokov at
the Crossroads" (Cambridge, July 1999) and Priscilla Meyer's "Pushkin,
Nabokov and Intertextuality" (March 1999 at Wesleyan University) are
presented below.
NABOKOV'S WORLD
2 volumes of essays, edited by Jane GRAYSON, Arnold McMILLIN and
Priscilla
MEYER
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001
Volume 1
Contributors:
Jane Grayson, Brian Boyd, D. Barton Johnson, Zoran Kuzmanovich, Dieter
Zimmer, Vladimir Alexandrov, Priscilla Meyer, Charles Lock, Stephen H.
Blackwell, Leona Toker, Paul Benedict , Charles Nicol, Maurice Couturier
Contents:
Preface
A note on the contributors
A note on abbreviations
A note on transliteration
Illustrations
Introduction: The Shape of Nabokov's World
Jane Grayson
1.Prologue: The Otherworld
Brian Boyd and D. Barton Johnson
2.Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the
Claims of the Real
Zoran Kuzmanovich
3.Mimicry in Nature and Art
Dieter Zimmer
4.Nabokov and Tolstoi: Notes on Allusions and Parallels
Vladimir Alexandrov
5.Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld'
D. Barton Johnson
6.Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade: Nabokov and the Spirits
Priscilla Meyer
7.Transparent Things and Opaque Words
Charles Lock
8.Nabokov, Mach and Monism
Stephen H. Blackwell
9.Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity
Leona Toker
10.Nabokov's Last Laughs
Paul Benedict Grant
11.Martin, Darwin, Malory and Pushkin: The Anglo-Russian Culture of
Glory
Charles Nicol
12.Writing and Erasure, or Nabokov's Other Texts
Maurice Couturier
13.The Wandering Jew as a Metaphor for Memory in Nabokov's Poetry and
Prose of the 1920s and 1930s
Olga Skonechnaia
14.The Double Exile of Vladimir Nabokov
Zinovy Zinik
15.L'Envoi: Shakespeare
Vladimir Nabokov. Translation by Dmitri Nabokov
Selected Bibliography
Index
Volume 2
Contributors:
Jane Grayson, Brian Boyd, Maria Malikova, Vera Proskurina, Michael
Meylac, Dale E. Peterson, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Neil Cornwell,
Catriona Kelly, John Burt Foster, Jr, Michael Wood, Ellen Pifer, J. D.
Quin, Rachel Trousdale, Priscilla Meyer, David Bellos
The cover shows the painting 'Lolita' (1998), by Simon Patterson
[acrylic on canvas, 72 x 172.8 cm.]. Simon Patterson is the well-known
contemporary British artist whose reworking of the London Underground
map, 'The Great Bear' currently hangs in the Tate Modern.
For a commentary on Patterson's artistic representation of Nabokov's
novel, see John Quin's essay in this volume, 'How did they ever make a
painting of 'Lolita'', pp. 186-92.
Contents:
Preface
A note on the contributors
A note on abbreviations
A note on transliteration
Illustrations
Introduction: Reading Nabokov
Jane Grayson
1.Nabokov: A Centennial Toast
Brian Boyd
2.V. V. Nabokov and V. D. Nabokov. His Father's Voice
Maria Malikova
3.Nabokov's Exegi Monumentum: Immortality in Quotation Marks
(Nabokov, Pushkin and Mikhail Gershenzon)
Vera Proskurina
4.Intertextuality and (Meta)poesis: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's 'Seven
Poems'
Michael Meylac
5.White (K)Nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories
Dale E. Peterson
6.Looking at Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art and the Ballets
Russes
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
7.Paintings, Governesses, and 'Publishing Scoundrels': Nabokov and
Henry James
Neil Cornwell
8.Nabokov, snobizm, and selfhood in Pnin
Catriona Kelly
9.Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats
John Burt Foster, Jr
10.Broken Dates: Proust, Nabokov and Modern Time
Michael Wood
11.'Did She Have a Precursor?': Lolita and Edith Wharton's The
Children
Ellen Pifer
12.How Did They Ever Make a Painting of Lolita?
J. D. Quin
13.Transformations of Memory; Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and
James Merrill
Rachel Trousdale
14.The Real Hound, The Real Knight
Priscilla Meyer
15.VN/GP: Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Work of Georges Perec
David Bellos
Selected Bibliography
Index
international conferences. The proceedings of Jane Grayson's "Nabokov at
the Crossroads" (Cambridge, July 1999) and Priscilla Meyer's "Pushkin,
Nabokov and Intertextuality" (March 1999 at Wesleyan University) are
presented below.
NABOKOV'S WORLD
2 volumes of essays, edited by Jane GRAYSON, Arnold McMILLIN and
Priscilla
MEYER
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001
Volume 1
Contributors:
Jane Grayson, Brian Boyd, D. Barton Johnson, Zoran Kuzmanovich, Dieter
Zimmer, Vladimir Alexandrov, Priscilla Meyer, Charles Lock, Stephen H.
Blackwell, Leona Toker, Paul Benedict , Charles Nicol, Maurice Couturier
Contents:
Preface
A note on the contributors
A note on abbreviations
A note on transliteration
Illustrations
Introduction: The Shape of Nabokov's World
Jane Grayson
1.Prologue: The Otherworld
Brian Boyd and D. Barton Johnson
2.Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the
Claims of the Real
Zoran Kuzmanovich
3.Mimicry in Nature and Art
Dieter Zimmer
4.Nabokov and Tolstoi: Notes on Allusions and Parallels
Vladimir Alexandrov
5.Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld'
D. Barton Johnson
6.Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade: Nabokov and the Spirits
Priscilla Meyer
7.Transparent Things and Opaque Words
Charles Lock
8.Nabokov, Mach and Monism
Stephen H. Blackwell
9.Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity
Leona Toker
10.Nabokov's Last Laughs
Paul Benedict Grant
11.Martin, Darwin, Malory and Pushkin: The Anglo-Russian Culture of
Glory
Charles Nicol
12.Writing and Erasure, or Nabokov's Other Texts
Maurice Couturier
13.The Wandering Jew as a Metaphor for Memory in Nabokov's Poetry and
Prose of the 1920s and 1930s
Olga Skonechnaia
14.The Double Exile of Vladimir Nabokov
Zinovy Zinik
15.L'Envoi: Shakespeare
Vladimir Nabokov. Translation by Dmitri Nabokov
Selected Bibliography
Index
Volume 2
Contributors:
Jane Grayson, Brian Boyd, Maria Malikova, Vera Proskurina, Michael
Meylac, Dale E. Peterson, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Neil Cornwell,
Catriona Kelly, John Burt Foster, Jr, Michael Wood, Ellen Pifer, J. D.
Quin, Rachel Trousdale, Priscilla Meyer, David Bellos
The cover shows the painting 'Lolita' (1998), by Simon Patterson
[acrylic on canvas, 72 x 172.8 cm.]. Simon Patterson is the well-known
contemporary British artist whose reworking of the London Underground
map, 'The Great Bear' currently hangs in the Tate Modern.
For a commentary on Patterson's artistic representation of Nabokov's
novel, see John Quin's essay in this volume, 'How did they ever make a
painting of 'Lolita'', pp. 186-92.
Contents:
Preface
A note on the contributors
A note on abbreviations
A note on transliteration
Illustrations
Introduction: Reading Nabokov
Jane Grayson
1.Nabokov: A Centennial Toast
Brian Boyd
2.V. V. Nabokov and V. D. Nabokov. His Father's Voice
Maria Malikova
3.Nabokov's Exegi Monumentum: Immortality in Quotation Marks
(Nabokov, Pushkin and Mikhail Gershenzon)
Vera Proskurina
4.Intertextuality and (Meta)poesis: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's 'Seven
Poems'
Michael Meylac
5.White (K)Nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories
Dale E. Peterson
6.Looking at Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art and the Ballets
Russes
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
7.Paintings, Governesses, and 'Publishing Scoundrels': Nabokov and
Henry James
Neil Cornwell
8.Nabokov, snobizm, and selfhood in Pnin
Catriona Kelly
9.Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats
John Burt Foster, Jr
10.Broken Dates: Proust, Nabokov and Modern Time
Michael Wood
11.'Did She Have a Precursor?': Lolita and Edith Wharton's The
Children
Ellen Pifer
12.How Did They Ever Make a Painting of Lolita?
J. D. Quin
13.Transformations of Memory; Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and
James Merrill
Rachel Trousdale
14.The Real Hound, The Real Knight
Priscilla Meyer
15.VN/GP: Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Work of Georges Perec
David Bellos
Selected Bibliography
Index