Subject: re-formatted VN Bibliography--Blackwell
From: "Stephen H. Blackwell" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:16:17 -0500

Book announcement:

Stephen H. Blackwell

Zina's Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift,
Peter Lang,

Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature vol. 23 (2000)

The first book-length study of Nabokov's last complete Russian
novel,

Zina's Paradox presents a fundamental reinterpretation of the novel's

narrative form, placing Zina, the hero's beloved, at the very center
of

the novel's significance. The work surveys the literary ideology of
the

Russian emigration, and also finds striking new evidence for the role
of

Iulii Aikhenvald in young Nabokov's intellectual development.
In

addition to exploring the metaphorical richness to be found in the

concept of artistic reading, the study also offers the first extended

treatment of the novel's love theme, tracing its relationship to various

literary and philosophical traditions.

232pp, bibliography, index

$55.95

ISBN:  0-8204-4883-4

The book can be orderd at Amazon.com or at www.peterlang.com

Table of Contents:

Introduction    1

Chapter 1  Scheme or Dream? Imagining the Emigration
12

Toward an emigre Literary Ideology
12

Aikhenvald and the Philosophy of Reading
25

Chapter 2   How to Be Happy: Living with an Artist
37

Chapter 3  The Structure of the Problematic Reading
58

Chapter 4  Tales of Reading    86

Chapter 5  Art's Romance in The Gift    112

6  Conclusion

The Boundaries of Art: Reading as Transcendence    141

Notes    169

Bibliography    199

Index 209

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Stephen H. Blackwell

Assistant Professor of Russian

Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN 37996

865/974-4536

Fax: 974-7096

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