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CONTENTS

S.J. Parker-----News

Brian Boyd---"Pierre, or the Ambiguities of Allusion"

Boyd's essay responds to Suellen Springer-Hye's article "Te Weed Exiles the Flower" (Melville and Nabokov) in NABOKOV STUDIES #5 (1998-99), pp. 117-27.

Suellen Stringer-Hye----Response to above

Margarit Tadevosyan & Maxim Shrayer---"Thou are NOT THOU: Evelyn Waugh and Vladimir Nabokov"

Notes & Brief Commentaries (Editor Priscilla Meyer)

Alexey Sklyarenko-----"The Sores of Eros in Nabokov's ADA"

1. "Amor's Poisoned Arrowsw: Duels & Venereal Disease on ADA's Antiterra"

2. " Champaigne: Paqrisian Boulevards & Poodles in ADA and Elsewhere"

3. "An Ironic Hesperus: Floramr Allusions to Kuprin in ADA"

Alexander Dolinin-----"A Note on the Last Name of Dolores Haze alias Lolita"

Gavriel Shapiro----"References to Russian Art in THE DEFENSE"

Alex Rocklin----"Pninelungenlied: Thew Siegfried Myth in Nabokov's PNIN"

Mikhail Avrekih----'On the Parallel of Lake Okhrida" (Pnin)

Brian Boyd------"Annotations to ADA 21: Part I Chapter 21"