Dear List,
I've been checking the Index in PF
and wondering about titles in American Universities. What about familiar
additions of PhD,w hen should they be added in an Index?
What does "Dr." or "Prof." mean, and what
may have been indicated by adding this information or omitting
them. Nabokov himself, who taught at some
American universities, would he be considered a Prof. or a Dr.?
Sometime in the past C. Kunin called attention to
R.L.Stevenson's title for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and related them
to Dr.Kinbote and simple J ohn Francis Shade, with no other indicators.
Botkin, V., American scholar of
Russian descent, 894 ( once called
Prof. Botkin by Kinbote)
Kinbote, Charles, Dr., an intimate friend of S, his literary adviser, editor and
commentator;
Charles II, Charles Xavier Vseslav, last King of Zembla, surnamed The Beloved,
b. 1915, reigned 1936-1958
Gradus, Jakob, 1915-1959; alias
Jack Degree, de Grey, d’Argus, Vinogradus, Leningradus,
etc
Shade, John Francis, poet and
scholar, 1898-1959...
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