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Nabokovian Xmas (& belated Hanukka) Presents
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DEar Nabokovians,
If you are wondering what to give that special Nabokovian on your
holiday list, please consider the following:
1. Membership in the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. $15 per annum
in U.S. Contact Professor Stephen Parker, Department of Slavic Languages,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66-45. Membership includes the twice-
yearly NABOKOVIAN, circa 90 pp of news and bibliography.
2. Subscription to the NABOKOV STUDIES, the Society's annual scholarly
journal at circa 300pp. of the world's best Nabokov scholarship. Details
and contents below.
D. Barton Johnson, Editor NABOK-L
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
---------- Forwarded message ----------
EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKOV STUDIES, a publication of the International
Vladimir Nabokov Society, is essential for all Nabokov specialists. I urge
that you subscribe and, even more importantly, that you request your
college or university library to do so.
One highlight of the current issue is a section from Brian Boyd's
forthcoming book on PALE FIRE question.
D. Barton Johnson, Editor NABOKV-L
-------------------------
ANNOUNCEMENT
The annual journal of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, NABOKOV
STUDIES (Vol 4, approx. 300pp) may be obtained from:
Zoran Kuzmanovich, Editor
NABOKOV STUDIES <nabokov@davidson.edu>
English Department
Davidson College
Davidson North Carolina 28036
Please make out checks in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank (or a
bank with U.S. representation), for $25.50 for the new issue. A three year
subscription for the 1996, 1997, 1998 issues is available for $72.00.
Foreign subscriptions, add $4 per year. Institutional rate: $35.50 per
volume. As well as your personal orders, please ask your university
libraries to subscribe. Checks for vol. III should be made out to NABOKOV
STUDIES. Please indicate the volume number on your check.
Back issues of NABOKOV STUDIES #1 (1994), #2 (1995), and #3 are
available from either Zoran Kuzmanovich at the above address (checks
payable to Zoran Kuzmanovich), or from Stephen Parker, Secretary/Treasurer
of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, c/o Dept. of Slavic
Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045.
Vol. I (1994) is $21 [233pp]; vol. II (1995) -- $28 [308pp.]. Checks to
Stephen Parker should be payable to the International Vladimir Nabokov
Society. Orders for volume I (only) are also available from D. Barton
Johnson, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, Phelps Hall, Univ.
of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.Checks payable to D. Barton Johnson.
Sample articles from volumes I, II, & III are available on the
Nabokov WWW-site. http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
>From Vol. I: Leona Toker, "Liberal Ironists and the 'Gaudily Painted
Savage': On Richard Rorty's Reading of Vladimir Nabokov"
>From Vol. II: Brian Boyd, "'Even Homais Nods': Nabokov's Fallibility or
How to Revise LOLITA"
>From Vol. III Thomas Seifrid, "Nabokov's Poetics of Vision or What _Anna
Karenina_ is Doing in _Kamera obskura_ (Laughter in the Dark).
(Available soon on ZEMBLA.)
The Table of Contents for the new issue follows.
-----------------------------------------------------------
NABOKOV STUDIES (Vol. 4, 1997)
Table of Contents
From the Editor vii
Contributors x
Articles
D. Barton Johnson 1
That Butterfly in Nabokov's Nabokov's _Eye_
Julian Connolly 15
Nabokov's Dialogue with Dostoevsky:
_Lolita_ and "The Gentle Creature"
Priscilla Meyer 37
_Despair_ and _The Real Life of Sebastian Knight_
as Doubles
Stephen H. Blackwell 61
Fated Freedoms:
Textual Form and Metaphysical Texture in Nabokov
Anna Brodsky 95
Homosexuality and the Aesthetic of Nabokov's _Dar_
Anat Ben-Amos 117
The Role of Literature in _The Gift_
Svetlana Polsky 151
Vladimir Nabokov's Short Story "Easter Rain"
Vladimir Mylnikov 163
The Nature of Textual Binarity: Nabokov's "Christmas"
Forum
Brian Boyd 173
Shade and Shape in _Pale Fire_
Amy Spungen 225
A Response to Sarah Herbold
Sarah Herbold 231
A Response to Amy Spungen
Reviews
Nassim Winnie Berdjis. Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's Last Russian
Novel (Dar), Its English Translation (The Gift), and Other Prose
Works. (1995)
Review by Priscilla Meyer 237
Boris Nosik. Mir I Dar Nabokova. Pervaia Russkaia Biografiia
Pisatelia. (1995)
Review by Simon Karlinsky 239
_Lolita_. Read by Jeremy Irons. (1997)
Review by Zoran Kuzmanovich 243
Richard Corliss. _Lolita_ (1995)
Review by Zoran Kuzmanovich 247
Galya Diment. _Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel.
(1997
Review by Gerard de Vries 250
Svetlana Polsky. Smert' i bessmertie v russikh rasskazakh Vladimira
Nabokova. (1997)
Review by Paul Morris 253
Index 258
If you are wondering what to give that special Nabokovian on your
holiday list, please consider the following:
1. Membership in the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. $15 per annum
in U.S. Contact Professor Stephen Parker, Department of Slavic Languages,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66-45. Membership includes the twice-
yearly NABOKOVIAN, circa 90 pp of news and bibliography.
2. Subscription to the NABOKOV STUDIES, the Society's annual scholarly
journal at circa 300pp. of the world's best Nabokov scholarship. Details
and contents below.
D. Barton Johnson, Editor NABOK-L
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
---------- Forwarded message ----------
EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKOV STUDIES, a publication of the International
Vladimir Nabokov Society, is essential for all Nabokov specialists. I urge
that you subscribe and, even more importantly, that you request your
college or university library to do so.
One highlight of the current issue is a section from Brian Boyd's
forthcoming book on PALE FIRE question.
D. Barton Johnson, Editor NABOKV-L
-------------------------
ANNOUNCEMENT
The annual journal of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, NABOKOV
STUDIES (Vol 4, approx. 300pp) may be obtained from:
Zoran Kuzmanovich, Editor
NABOKOV STUDIES <nabokov@davidson.edu>
English Department
Davidson College
Davidson North Carolina 28036
Please make out checks in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank (or a
bank with U.S. representation), for $25.50 for the new issue. A three year
subscription for the 1996, 1997, 1998 issues is available for $72.00.
Foreign subscriptions, add $4 per year. Institutional rate: $35.50 per
volume. As well as your personal orders, please ask your university
libraries to subscribe. Checks for vol. III should be made out to NABOKOV
STUDIES. Please indicate the volume number on your check.
Back issues of NABOKOV STUDIES #1 (1994), #2 (1995), and #3 are
available from either Zoran Kuzmanovich at the above address (checks
payable to Zoran Kuzmanovich), or from Stephen Parker, Secretary/Treasurer
of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, c/o Dept. of Slavic
Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045.
Vol. I (1994) is $21 [233pp]; vol. II (1995) -- $28 [308pp.]. Checks to
Stephen Parker should be payable to the International Vladimir Nabokov
Society. Orders for volume I (only) are also available from D. Barton
Johnson, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, Phelps Hall, Univ.
of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.Checks payable to D. Barton Johnson.
Sample articles from volumes I, II, & III are available on the
Nabokov WWW-site. http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
>From Vol. I: Leona Toker, "Liberal Ironists and the 'Gaudily Painted
Savage': On Richard Rorty's Reading of Vladimir Nabokov"
>From Vol. II: Brian Boyd, "'Even Homais Nods': Nabokov's Fallibility or
How to Revise LOLITA"
>From Vol. III Thomas Seifrid, "Nabokov's Poetics of Vision or What _Anna
Karenina_ is Doing in _Kamera obskura_ (Laughter in the Dark).
(Available soon on ZEMBLA.)
The Table of Contents for the new issue follows.
-----------------------------------------------------------
NABOKOV STUDIES (Vol. 4, 1997)
Table of Contents
From the Editor vii
Contributors x
Articles
D. Barton Johnson 1
That Butterfly in Nabokov's Nabokov's _Eye_
Julian Connolly 15
Nabokov's Dialogue with Dostoevsky:
_Lolita_ and "The Gentle Creature"
Priscilla Meyer 37
_Despair_ and _The Real Life of Sebastian Knight_
as Doubles
Stephen H. Blackwell 61
Fated Freedoms:
Textual Form and Metaphysical Texture in Nabokov
Anna Brodsky 95
Homosexuality and the Aesthetic of Nabokov's _Dar_
Anat Ben-Amos 117
The Role of Literature in _The Gift_
Svetlana Polsky 151
Vladimir Nabokov's Short Story "Easter Rain"
Vladimir Mylnikov 163
The Nature of Textual Binarity: Nabokov's "Christmas"
Forum
Brian Boyd 173
Shade and Shape in _Pale Fire_
Amy Spungen 225
A Response to Sarah Herbold
Sarah Herbold 231
A Response to Amy Spungen
Reviews
Nassim Winnie Berdjis. Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's Last Russian
Novel (Dar), Its English Translation (The Gift), and Other Prose
Works. (1995)
Review by Priscilla Meyer 237
Boris Nosik. Mir I Dar Nabokova. Pervaia Russkaia Biografiia
Pisatelia. (1995)
Review by Simon Karlinsky 239
_Lolita_. Read by Jeremy Irons. (1997)
Review by Zoran Kuzmanovich 243
Richard Corliss. _Lolita_ (1995)
Review by Zoran Kuzmanovich 247
Galya Diment. _Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel.
(1997
Review by Gerard de Vries 250
Svetlana Polsky. Smert' i bessmertie v russikh rasskazakh Vladimira
Nabokova. (1997)
Review by Paul Morris 253
Index 258