Given as plenary at the Kyoto International Vladimir Nabokov Conference in March 2010. Reprinted as ch. 10, "The Psychological Work of Fictional Play," in Boyd, Stalking Nabokov. Translated into Bulgarian: “Психологът,” Literaturen Vestnik (Sofia), June 19, 2013, 1, 12-13. Trans. РАДОСТИН ЖЕЛЕВ (Radostin Zhelev).
Abstract
Nabokov as psychologist in his characterization and in the strategies he prepares for readers, as understood through the lenses of congitive science. Based on a close reading of a passage from Ada, I.4.
Given as plenary at the Kyoto International Vladimir Nabokov Conference in March 2010. Reprinted as ch. 10, "The Psychological Work of Fictional Play," in Boyd, Stalking Nabokov. Translated into Bulgarian: “Психологът,” Literaturen Vestnik (Sofia), June 19, 2013, 1, 12-13. Trans. РАДОСТИН ЖЕЛЕВ (Radostin Zhelev).