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QUERY: Christine Rydel's _A Nabokov Who's Who_
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Dear List,
Are there any news of professor Rydel's *A Nabokov Who's Who*? Is the
project still ongoing, has it been shelved, or is it complete and looking
for a publisher? The effort and the complexity of the endeavor are
staggering, so a lengthy gestation is beyond understandable. (The last
mention I found of it on the list is in 2001.) At any rate, it's such a
wonderful idea: a catalog of every name and figure in Nabokov's oeuvre!
I was thinking, too, that -- if the project has for any reason stalled --
this sort of concordance would work well as a Wiki (ala
Wikipedia<http://wikipedia.org/>,
or the Pynchon Wiki <http://pynchonwiki.com/>, or any number of
crowdsourced<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing>projects
which, however real
and considerable their
limitations<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924492,00.html>,
may prove useful). It's the kind of thing that may benefit from extensive,
distributed collaboration.
Thoughts? I'm waist-deep in dissertation stuff, but I'm wondering if list
members would be at all interested in this sort of project, if appropriate
-- it seems like the sort of work that could prove useful. (It would
certainly prove useful to me: the proposal's borne partly out sheer
self-interest.)
Best,
Juan
--
Juan Martinez
-- http://fulmerford.com
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Are there any news of professor Rydel's *A Nabokov Who's Who*? Is the
project still ongoing, has it been shelved, or is it complete and looking
for a publisher? The effort and the complexity of the endeavor are
staggering, so a lengthy gestation is beyond understandable. (The last
mention I found of it on the list is in 2001.) At any rate, it's such a
wonderful idea: a catalog of every name and figure in Nabokov's oeuvre!
I was thinking, too, that -- if the project has for any reason stalled --
this sort of concordance would work well as a Wiki (ala
Wikipedia<http://wikipedia.org/>,
or the Pynchon Wiki <http://pynchonwiki.com/>, or any number of
crowdsourced<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing>projects
which, however real
and considerable their
limitations<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924492,00.html>,
may prove useful). It's the kind of thing that may benefit from extensive,
distributed collaboration.
Thoughts? I'm waist-deep in dissertation stuff, but I'm wondering if list
members would be at all interested in this sort of project, if appropriate
-- it seems like the sort of work that could prove useful. (It would
certainly prove useful to me: the proposal's borne partly out sheer
self-interest.)
Best,
Juan
--
Juan Martinez
-- http://fulmerford.com
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
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