Bibliographic title
The Five Senses in Nabokov's Works
Abstract
Abstract
This collection of essays focuses on a subject largely neglected in Nabokovian criticism—the importance and significance of the five senses in Vladimir Nabokov’s work, poetics, politics and aesthetics. This text analyzes the crucial role of the author’s synesthesia and multilingualism in relation to the five senses, as well as the sensual and erotic dimensions of sensoriality in his works. Each chapter provides a highly focused and sometimes provocative approach to the unique role that sensory perceptions play in the shaping and narrating of Nabokov’s memories and in his creative process.
Table of Contents
Marie Bouchet, Julie Loison-Charles and Isabelle Poulin: ‘Do the Senses Make Sense?’: An Introduction
PART I - The Role of the Senses in Nabokov’s Aesthetics and Metaphysics
Brian Boyd: Senses, Minds, Meanings and Value in Nabokov: Do the Senses Make Sense?
Lilla Farmasi: ‘To breathe the dust of this painted life’: Modes of Engaging the Senses in Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading
Michael Rodgers: Nabokov’s Visceral, Cerebral and Aesthetic Senses
Lyudmila Razumova: Developing Transnational Style: Particularities of Nabokov’s Lexicon and Cognitive Frames in The Gift in Relation to the Five Senses
PART II - Crossing Sensations and Languages: Multilingualism, Memory and Intermediality
Damien Mollaret: An Eden of Sensations: The Five Senses in Speak, Memory
Yannicke Chupin: A Look at the Spectropoetics of Photography in Nabokov’s fiction
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney: Visual Agnosia in Nabokov: When One of the Senses Can’t Make Sense
Julie Loison-Charles: Translating Taste and Switching Tongues
Isabelle Poulin: Translation as Craft and Heroic Deed: On the Political Stakes of a Multilingual Sensoriality
PART III - Senses and the Body: from Pleasure to Displeasure
Maurice Couturier: Sensuality and the Senses in Nabokov
Julian W. Connolly: The ‘Eyes’ Have It: The Pleasures and Problems of Scopophilia in Nabokov’s Work
Suzanne Fraysse: The carmen in Nabokov’s Lolita
Anastasia Tolstoy: ‘I’d Like to Taste the Inside of Your Mouth’: The Mouth as Locus of Disgust in Nabokov’s Fiction
PART IV - Synesthesia and Multisensoriality
Jean-Michel Hupé: An Introduction to Synesthesia Via Vladimir Nabokov
Marie Bouchet: Neurological Synaesthesia vs Literary Synaesthesia: Can Nabokov Help Bridge the Gap?
Sabine Metzger: Undulations and Vibrations, Tonalities and Harmonies: Nabokov, Acoustics and the Otherworld
Kiyoko Magome: Vladimir Nabokov’s Musico-Literary Microcosm: “Music” and Nabokov’s Quartet
Léopold Reigner: 'Tactio has come of age’: the Tactile Sense in Nabokov’s Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada
Nathalia Saliba Dias: Embodied Memories in Ada, or Ardor and Speak, Memory
Lara Delage-Toriel: ‘A Tactile Sensation is a Blind Spot’: Nabokov’s Aesthetics of Touch
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