Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003051, Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:01:16 -0700

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Names in Nabokov's fictionss
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EDITOR's NOTE. Not much has been done with the topic of names in VN's
fiction. I ran across the reference (below) to a journal that might
yield some ideas for research in the area. Anyone who tackles the topic
should obviously know Russian, French, and german.

Such a project will be enormously facilitated with the long-awaited
publication of Christine Rydel's reference volume _Who's Who is VN__ to
be put out by Ardis Publishers.

D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618

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There is a journal, which I haven't seen, called _Literary Onomastics
Studies_ (ISSN 0160-8703), published since 1974 at State University of
New York--Brockport. A selection of articles was reprinted from that
journal under the title _Names in Literature: Essays from Literary
Onomastics Studies_, ed. Grace Alvarez-Altman and Frederick M. Burelbach
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987). The journal is
probably worth exploring in this context.