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Re: query: VN & Lacan (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Marilyn Edelstein's <MEDELSTEIN@SCUACC.SCU.EDU> question
is not one I have looked into, but recall offhand that Vadim Linetskii's
curious book _"Anti-Bakhtin" --luchshaia kniga o Vladimire Nabokove_
(Petersburg, 1994) (in Russian with English chapter synopses) deals with
Lacan's ideas. Suny Otake reviewed it on NABOKV-L and her review is in the
new 1966 NABOKOV STUDIES. Ermarth's material may be included in her recent
book.
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The lack of responses to the query about whether there's been any work on
Lacan and VN (which I gather would include Lacanian analyses of VN)--a
query from several weeks ago--suggests that no one has done such work (or
that it's not known to VN scholars). There has been one article I know of
on Kristeva and VN (and Kristeva has been strongly influenced by Lacan as
well as Freud--and, like VN, was an Eastern European emigre, and also
first introduced Bakhtin to a Western European audience), although I've
been unable to locate my copy of the article for the precise reference.
It's by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, and I think it was either in an anthology
of essays on postmodernism and/or in a journal, about 5-8 years ago. If I
find the article or the reference, I'll post it if anyone is interested.
I had been glad to find the article, since I'd been interested in both
Kristeva and Nabokov, and was happily surprised to see someone link them.
Marilyn Edelstein,
Dept. of English, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara CA
medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu
is not one I have looked into, but recall offhand that Vadim Linetskii's
curious book _"Anti-Bakhtin" --luchshaia kniga o Vladimire Nabokove_
(Petersburg, 1994) (in Russian with English chapter synopses) deals with
Lacan's ideas. Suny Otake reviewed it on NABOKV-L and her review is in the
new 1966 NABOKOV STUDIES. Ermarth's material may be included in her recent
book.
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The lack of responses to the query about whether there's been any work on
Lacan and VN (which I gather would include Lacanian analyses of VN)--a
query from several weeks ago--suggests that no one has done such work (or
that it's not known to VN scholars). There has been one article I know of
on Kristeva and VN (and Kristeva has been strongly influenced by Lacan as
well as Freud--and, like VN, was an Eastern European emigre, and also
first introduced Bakhtin to a Western European audience), although I've
been unable to locate my copy of the article for the precise reference.
It's by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, and I think it was either in an anthology
of essays on postmodernism and/or in a journal, about 5-8 years ago. If I
find the article or the reference, I'll post it if anyone is interested.
I had been glad to find the article, since I'd been interested in both
Kristeva and Nabokov, and was happily surprised to see someone link them.
Marilyn Edelstein,
Dept. of English, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara CA
medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu