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EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKVL will soon be running all of the abstracts for papers
ead at the VN SYMPPOSIUM (Saint Petersburg: July 2002).
Below is the first.
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Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College)
NABOKOV'S IMPACT ON AMERICAN POST-MODERNISTS: THE CASE OF JOHN HAWKES
Vladimir Nabokov was a cult figure among the American post-modernists who
entered the literary mainstream in the late 1940s-early 1950s (Donald
Barthleme, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, John Hawkes and others). In my
paper, I will begin to assess the impact of Nabokov's works and his literary
myth upon the careers of the first generation of the post-modernists.
Combining comparative analysis with personal reflections, my paper will
focus on the place of Nabokov in the career of John Hawkes (1925-1998), a
remarkable writer whom I got to know as a student in his fiction writing
seminar at Brown University (see:
http://www.vestalreview.net/inmemoryFinal.htm).
> > Maxim D. Shrayer
> Associate Professor of Russian & English
> Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages
> Boston College
> Lyons Hall 210
> 140 Commonwealth Avenue
> Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA
>
> e-mail: shrayerm@bc.edu
> tel. (617) 552-3911
> fax. (617) 552-2286
ead at the VN SYMPPOSIUM (Saint Petersburg: July 2002).
Below is the first.
>
>
Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College)
NABOKOV'S IMPACT ON AMERICAN POST-MODERNISTS: THE CASE OF JOHN HAWKES
Vladimir Nabokov was a cult figure among the American post-modernists who
entered the literary mainstream in the late 1940s-early 1950s (Donald
Barthleme, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, John Hawkes and others). In my
paper, I will begin to assess the impact of Nabokov's works and his literary
myth upon the careers of the first generation of the post-modernists.
Combining comparative analysis with personal reflections, my paper will
focus on the place of Nabokov in the career of John Hawkes (1925-1998), a
remarkable writer whom I got to know as a student in his fiction writing
seminar at Brown University (see:
http://www.vestalreview.net/inmemoryFinal.htm).
> > Maxim D. Shrayer
> Associate Professor of Russian & English
> Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages
> Boston College
> Lyons Hall 210
> 140 Commonwealth Avenue
> Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA
>
> e-mail: shrayerm@bc.edu
> tel. (617) 552-3911
> fax. (617) 552-2286