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From: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
Following Sam's lead, I also discuss VN's and EW's exchange on this topic, in a slightly different context, in my essay "Sinistral Details: Nabokov, Wilson, and Hamlet in BEND SINISTER," in Nabokov Studies 1 (1994): 179-94.
Beth
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
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From: sam schuman <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
In "'Despair and Die,' A Note on Nabokov and Shakespeare's Tragedies,"
NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (January, 1982 - egads, two decades past)
I point out that the paragraph in DESPAIR which echoes Shakespeare's
five-fold "Never" from KING LEAR also includes:
--A Hamlet-like asserthion that ghosts may be frauds,
--The phrase "There is the rub," obviously another HAMLET citation,
--The phrase "forever, and forever, and forever," which perhaps echoes
Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow."
It is pretty clear that Hermann, in this comment, is contemplating the way
to dusty death.
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Chancellor
The University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@mrs.umn.edu
320-589-6020
Following Sam's lead, I also discuss VN's and EW's exchange on this topic, in a slightly different context, in my essay "Sinistral Details: Nabokov, Wilson, and Hamlet in BEND SINISTER," in Nabokov Studies 1 (1994): 179-94.
Beth
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
>>> galya@u.washington.edu 01/07/02 11:06 AM >>>
From: sam schuman <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
In "'Despair and Die,' A Note on Nabokov and Shakespeare's Tragedies,"
NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (January, 1982 - egads, two decades past)
I point out that the paragraph in DESPAIR which echoes Shakespeare's
five-fold "Never" from KING LEAR also includes:
--A Hamlet-like asserthion that ghosts may be frauds,
--The phrase "There is the rub," obviously another HAMLET citation,
--The phrase "forever, and forever, and forever," which perhaps echoes
Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow."
It is pretty clear that Hermann, in this comment, is contemplating the way
to dusty death.
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Chancellor
The University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@mrs.umn.edu
320-589-6020