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Re: Report: Back from Upside-Down
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In a message dated 1/16/2012 10:08:49 AM Central Standard Time,
nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:
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>
> Having just returned from Brian Boyd's "Nabokov Upside Down" conference, I
> just wanted to report that it was a positively incandescent atmosphere of
> discovery. There were suggestive and provocative papers on many subjects,
> including (to take a random sampling) a new authorship theory for Pale Fire
> , completely new thoughts on the notion of "authorial tyranny," Nabokov's
> low humor, autoscopy, foodnotes, butterflies, prophecy, Playboy,Pushkin and
> translation, and too much more to list here. The abstracts are for now
> available at:
>
>
> https://custom.cvent.com/F171CE82AA5645B8BA021387DB23D170/files/d0ef422e8c6642ce956c587060d284fd.pdf
>
> However, a few of the papers may have changed somewhat since the abstracts
> were written.
>
> Hats off to Brian Boyd and and everyone who participated, attended, and
> made the gathering such a success!
>
> Stephen Blackwell
> Co-editor, Nabokv-l
I second Stephen's use of "incandescent." The papers and the follow-up
discussions were never less than interesting and more often illuminating.
Brian is to be congratulated for putting together such an outstanding meeting of
"upside-down" minds.
Sam Gwynn
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nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:
>
>
> Having just returned from Brian Boyd's "Nabokov Upside Down" conference, I
> just wanted to report that it was a positively incandescent atmosphere of
> discovery. There were suggestive and provocative papers on many subjects,
> including (to take a random sampling) a new authorship theory for Pale Fire
> , completely new thoughts on the notion of "authorial tyranny," Nabokov's
> low humor, autoscopy, foodnotes, butterflies, prophecy, Playboy,Pushkin and
> translation, and too much more to list here. The abstracts are for now
> available at:
>
>
> https://custom.cvent.com/F171CE82AA5645B8BA021387DB23D170/files/d0ef422e8c6642ce956c587060d284fd.pdf
>
> However, a few of the papers may have changed somewhat since the abstracts
> were written.
>
> Hats off to Brian Boyd and and everyone who participated, attended, and
> made the gathering such a success!
>
> Stephen Blackwell
> Co-editor, Nabokv-l
I second Stephen's use of "incandescent." The papers and the follow-up
discussions were never less than interesting and more often illuminating.
Brian is to be congratulated for putting together such an outstanding meeting of
"upside-down" minds.
Sam Gwynn
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