NOTE. As some of you may know, the French scholarly journal CYCNOS published the papers of the three VN conferences in Nice organized by the eminent French Nabokov scholar Maurice Couturier. All three conference proceedings (all in English) are now available on-line and may be found at http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/index.html?id=881. Go to this page which lists ALL the CYCNOS issues and select each of the follow three issues for the full texts.
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Cycnos | Volume 10 n°1 NABOKOV : Autobiography, Biography and Fiction (1993)
Introduction: Maurice Couturier
Brian Boyd : New Light on Nabokov’s Russian Years
Ellen Pifer : Innocence and Experience Replayed: From Speak Memory to Ada
Gennady Barabtarlo : Nabokov in the Wilson Archive
Simon Karlinsky : Nabokov and Chekhov: Affinities, parallels, structures
Julian W. Connolly : From Biography to Autobiography and Back: The Fictionalization of The Narrated Self in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Maurice Couturier. The Distinguished Writer vs the Child
Geoffrey Green : “Visions of a ‘Perfect Past’: Nabokov, Autobiography, Biography, and Fiction”
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney : Playing Nabokov
Dmitri Nabokov : Things I Could Have Said
Leona Toker : “Who was becoming seasick? Cincinnatus”: Some Aspects of Nabokov’s treatment of the
Christine Raguet-Bouvart : Textual Regeneration and the Author’s Progress
Don Barton Johnson : Vladimir Nabokov and Captain Mayne Reid
Stephen Jan Parker : Nabokov’s Montreux Books: Part II
Pekka Tammi : The St. Petersburg Text and Its Nabokovian Texture
Robert Alter : Autobiography as Alchemy in Pale Fire
Suzanne Fraysse : Look At The Harlequins!
Herbert Grabes : The Deconstruction of Autobiography: Look at the Harlequins!
David Rampton : The Last Word in Nabokov Criticism
Cycnos | Volume 12 n°2 NABOKOV At the Crossroads of Modernism & Postmodernism- juin 1995
Introduction. Maurice Couturier
Brian Boyd : Words, Works and Worlds in Joyce and Nabokov
Laurent Milesi : Dead on Time? Nabokov’s “Post” to the Letter
Christine Raguet-Bouvart : Riverruning acrostically through “The Vane Sisters” and “A.L.P.,” or “genealogy on its head”
Maurice Couturier: Censorship and the Authorial Figure in Ulysses and Lolita
Alexander Dolinin : Caning of Modernist Profaners: Parody in Despair
Wladimir Troubetzkoy : Vladimir Nabokov’s Despair: The Reader as “April’s Fool”
Simon Karlinsky : Nabokov and Some Poets of Russian Modernism
Julian W. Connolly : Cincinnatus and Différance: Subversive Discourse in Invitation to a Beheading
Galya Diment : From Kafka’s Castle to Axel’s Castle: Nabokov vs Wilson as Critics of Modernism
Suzanne Fraysse : Worlds Under Erasure: Lolita and Postmodernism
Don Barton Johnson : Nabokov, Ayn Rand, and Russian-American Literature or, the Odd Couple
John Burt Foster : Parody, Pastiche, and Periodization: Nabokov/Jameson
Herbert Grabes : A Prize for the (Post-)Modernist Nabokov
David Lodge : What Kind of Fiction did Nabokov Write? A Practitioner’s view
Jane Grayson : Nabokov and Perec
Geoffrey Green : Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism: Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction of Transcendent Perspective
Ellen Pifer : Birds of a Different Feather: Nabokov’s Lolita and Kosinski’s Boy
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney : The V-Shaped Paradigm: Nabokov and Pynchon
Pekka Tammi : Shadows of Differences: Pale Fire and Foucault’s Pendulum
Dmitri Nabokov : White nights, forty degrees celsius
Cycnos | Volume 24 n°1 Vladimir Nabokov, Annotating vs Interpreting Nabokov-
-Actes du colloque, Nice 21-23 juin 2006
Maurice Couturier: “Annotating vs. Interpreting Nabokov: The Author as a Helper or a Screen?”
Ellen Pifer : Finding the “Real” Key to Lolita: A Modest Proposal
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney : “Had I Come Before Myself”: Illegitimate Judgments of Lolitaand Despair
Galya Diment : From Bauer’s Li to Nabokov’s Lo: Lolita and Early Russian Film
Don Barton Johnson : Ada’s “Last Tango” in Dance, Song and Film
Lara Delage-Toriel : Disclosures under Seal: Nabokov, Secrecy and the Reader
Gerard de Vries : Nabokov’s Pale Fire, its structure and the last works of J.S. Bach
Gennady Barabtarlo : The Man Is the Book
John Burt Foster : Framing Nabokov: Modernism, Multiculturalism, World Literature
Monica Manolescu : “Verbal Adventures in the Inky Jungle”: Marco Polo and John Mandeville in Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift
Andrey Babikov : On Germination of Nabokov’s “Main Theme”. In his Story “Natasha”
David Rampton : As We Like It: Nabokov and the Passions of Reading
Julian W. Connolly : The Challenge of Interpreting and Decoding Nabokov: Strategies and Suggestions
Zoran Kuzmanovich : “Reading with the spine” or Reading Nabokov with Huck Finn
Priscilla Meyer : Life as Annotation: Sebastian Knight, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Vladimir Nabokov1
Michael Wood : The Figure in the Crypt
Lectures publiques
Jeff Edmunds : Vladimir Nabokov à l'âge d'Internet
Brian Boyd : Lolita: What We Know and What We Don’t
David Lodge : Nabokov and the Campus Novel
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