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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature: Portraits of the Artist as Reader and Teacher
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212
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This volume offers insight into Vladimir Nabokov as a reader and a teacher, and sheds new light on the relationship of his views on literary aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre. The essays included focus on the lectures on European and Russian literature that Nabokov gave at a number of American universities in the years between his arrival in the United States and the publication of Lolita. Nabokov’s treatment of literary masterpieces by Austen, Cervantes, Chekhov, Dickens, Flaubert, Gogol, Kafka, Joyce, Proust and Stevenson is assessed by experts on these authors.
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1. Yannicke Chupin - Nabokov’s Reflections on ‘Proust’s Prismatic People’
2. Luc Herman - ‘The Author’s Pale Virgin Cheek’: Nabokov on Austen
3. Ilse Logie - Vladimir Nabokov on Don Quixote: ‘A Veritable Encyclopedia of Cruelty
4. Vivian Liska - The Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov’s Lecture on Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’
5. Flora Keersmaekers - ‘As Flaubert Intended It to Be Discussed’: Vladimir Nabokov and Jean Rousset on Madame Bovary
6. Geert Lernout - Nabokov on Joyce and Ulysses
7. Arthur Langeveld - Gogol Seen through the Eyes of Nabokov
8. Ben Dhooge - On an Unhappy Marriage, Henry James, and Atoms: Vladimir Nabokov Reading (on) Anton Chekhov
9. Lara Delage-Toriel - ‘Do Dogs Eat Poppies?’: When Nabokov Teaches Flaubert
10. Roy Groen - Of Words and Worlds: The Role of Proust’s Aesthetics in Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature
11. Gerard de Vries- Vladimir Nabokov on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson