Vladimir Nabokov

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1999 MLA Nabokov Centennial Panels (fwd)
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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
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M L A ***1 9 9 9 ***I V N S***C E N T E N N I A L*** P A N E L S
C H I C A G O

These are back-to back panels which will be held on December 27,
5:15-8:15 pm. We received many excellent proposals but, unfortunately, had
to limit the number of accepted papers to 8. Thanks to everyone who
showed their interest in participating!

Galya Diment

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NABOKOV CENTENNIAL PANEL I
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Chair, Ellen Pifer, Univ. of Delaware

1. Julian W. Connolly, Univ. of Virginia:
"How Should We Read (and Interpret) Nabokov's Work?"

2. Dana Dragunoiu, Univ. of Toronto, Canada:
"Nabokov's 'Indivisible Monism': A Metaphysical Problem Ignored"

3. Paul Neubauer, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
"The Figure of the Fool in the Master's Later Novels"

4. Sarah Herbold, Univ. of California, Berkeley
"Charlotte's Revenge in *Lolita*"

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NABOKOV CENTENNIAL PANEL II
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Chair, Galya Diment, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

1. Lisa Zunshine, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
"Rethinking Nabokov's 'Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster'"

2. Lioubov Iouzina-Tarvainen, Helsinki Univ., Finland
"What's in a Literal Translation: Nabokov's Pushkin and the Other
English *Eugene Onegins*"

3. Michael Eskin, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK
"My *Onegin*, Your *Onegin*: The Strange Case of Alexander
Nabokov and Vladimir Pushkin"

4. Andrew Wallace, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
"Nabokov's Metamorphoses: Translation and Transformation
in *Ada*