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EDITOR's NOTE. See below for response.
Coursey, James wrote:
>(First: let me say thank you for _Zembla_ and
NABOKV-L; I've been gleefully
>glued to every posting for
the last year. Next, I'm glad to say that checks
>for my first-time
subscriptions to both _The Nabokovian_ and _Nabokov
>Studies_ are finally in the
mail!)
>
>I'm currently working on a
Masters thesis that seeks to explore Pale Fire
>and its critics in terms of
reader-response theory (Iser, Fish, & company).
>
>Unfortunately, I'm at a small
university whose library does not carry _The
>Nabokovian_ or _Nabokov
Studies_, so I will need to personally purchase back
>issues to research (on a GTA's shoestring budget!) individually
until I can
>afford to buy the whole
backlist.
>
>I'm guessing that if articles
pertaining to the 1988 MLA Convention IVNS
>program mentioned at the
Zembla website at
>
>http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nabsoc.htm#join
>
>(where it is written "Several other
trends in contemporary literary study
>were examined in the 1988
session on 'Nabokov and Contemporary Literary
>Theory,' including
reader-response criticism.")
>
>were published in _The
Nabokovian_, they would be found in the issues for
>1988/89, roughly targeting
issues XX-XXIII (am I guessing correctly
>anyone?).
>
>I would greatly appreciate
any knowledge, criticism, experience, advice,
>leads, anecdotes, and/or
anything else concerning my thesis focus that
>anyone would be willing to
share.
>
>Additionally, please pass
this message and my request on to anyone willing
>to point out sources
pertaining to my research topic that might easily be
>overlooked.
>
>(Would this be an appropriate request to
post to NABOKV-L?)
>
>Much obliged,
>
>James W. Coursey
>GTA English Department
>Midwestern State University
>Wichita Falls, TX
>
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>
Dear James Coursey,
Thank you for your inquiry. Papers presented at
conferences
sessions sponsored by MLA et al
are not often published in IVNS publications. The paper in question
"Nabokov and the Role of the
Reader: LOLITA's Challange to Contemporary
Theories of Lit." by Brian
Richardson (U. of Washington), given at one
of the Nabokov Society's MLA
sessions in 1988, was not, although it may
have appeared elsewhere. If
the paper was published, the best place to
locate it would be either on the
VN bibliography list on ZEMBLA or the
MLA on-line bibliography. Other
papers at the session were: Brenda
Marshall (U. Mass, Amherst)
"Nabokov would has been horrified: Authorial
Position in Contmeporary Critical Theory; Martina Sciolino
(U. of S.
Miss) "Preserving the Subject,
Resisting the Text: Naboov on Kafka";
James English (U of Penn)
"Mastery and Transendence, and the Hegelian
Syllogism of Humor in Pale
Fire" Good luck with your project.
Don Johnson NABOKV-L
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