Vladimir Nabokov

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Will Norman and Duncan White send the following announcement:

Transitional Nabokov, ed. Will Norman and Duncan White. Now available
from Peter Lang, UK:


SYNOPSIS: This collection of original essays is concerned with one of
the most important writers of the twentieth century: Vladimir Nabokov.
The book features contributions from both well-established and new
scholars, and represents the latest developments in research. The essays
all address the possibility of reading Nabokov's works as operating
between categories of various kinds - whether linguistic, formal,
historical or national. In doing so, they explore exciting new paradigms
for approaching Nabokov's oeuvre.
The volume brings together a diverse range of critical voices from
around the world, to respond to some of the most urgent questions raised
about Nabokov's work. Topics covered include the relationship between
his artistic and scientific work, his influences on contemporary
fiction, and the development of his aesthetics over his career. Drawing
variously on archive research, alternative readings of key texts, and
fresh theoretical approaches, this book injects new impetus into Nabokov
studies as it continues to evolve as a discipline.

CONTENTS: Will Norman/Duncan White: Introduction - Stephen H.
Blackwell: Nabokov's Fugitive Sense - Brian Boyd: Literature, Pattern,
Lolita: Or Art, Literature, Science - Leland de la Durantaye: Artistic
Selection: Science and Art in Vladimir Nabokov - Susan Elizabeth
Sweeney: Thinking about Impossible Things in Nabokov - Christine Raguet:
Beyond Creativity: Translation as a Transitional Process: Ada in French
- Rachel Trousdale: «International Fraternity»: Nabokov, Chabon, and the
Model Transnational - Neil Cornwell: Secrets, Memories and Lives:
Nabokov and Pamuk - Maurice Couturier: The French Nabokov - Lara
Delage-Toriel: Bodies in Translation: Deriving Meaning from Motion in
Nabokov's Works - Siggy Frank: «By Nature I am no Dramatist»:
Theatricality in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s - Emily
Collins: «A Luminous Web»: Nabokov's Magical Objects - Yuri Leving:
Singing The Bells and The Covetous Knight: Nabokov and Rachmaninoff's
Operatic Translations of Poe and Pushkin - Michael Wood: The Kindness of
Cruelty - Thomas Karshan: Nabokov's Transition from Game towards Free
Play, 1934-1947 - Ronald Bush: Tennis by the Book: Lolita and the Game
of Modernist Fiction - Zoran Kuzmanovich: No Ghosts Walk.


PRICE: $58.95; £38; Euro 38

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