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...Patricia Penn Hilden By Deborah House. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002. xxvii, 122 pp.$35.00. By Peter Nabokov. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. x, 246 pp. Cloth,$55.00; paper, $20.00. 2003...

...Susan Mizruchi Duke University Press 2003 Susan Lolita in History Mizruchi ardens and Parks the final chapter of Nabokov’s 6903 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 145 of 209 G...

... and wherefores for all expressions of American Indian historical thought, whether of the spoken, written, crafted, or danced varieties’’ (21). Such a practice, as Nabokov demonstrates, corrects dismissals of Indians...

... Nabokov, Perversely. By Eric Naiman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. viii, 305 pp. $35.00. Interpretation and perversity are inseparable in this account of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels. The sexual predilections of Nabokov’s characters, Nai- man argues, are redoubled...

... attitude and a second shift from there to a final nonjudgmental stance.” Alsen has a personal connection to the narrative, as his father was a Nazi taken prisoner by Salinger’s regiment. Nabokov and His Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace . By Duncan White. New York: Oxford...

... ‘science fiction writes Vladimir Nabokov at the start of his own “amateur performance” in the genre, the late short story “Lance”: I have looked into it, and found it as boring as the mystery-­story magazines—the same sort of dismally pedestrian writing with oodles of dialogue...

..., rationalize our still under-remarked-upon cultures of the great unread, as Margaret Cohen termed them (148–63). Each of these books works very differently. Mitchell’s approach turns to Willa Cather, Vladimir Nabokov, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Junot Díaz in its exemplary demonstration...

.... If James articulates a contemporary drive toward ambiguity and self- reflexivity, Vladimir Nabokov takes that impulse to a new level in Lolita (1955). Adroitly evoking Frankenstein’s betrayal of the creature he fashions...

... Hemingway for its tourism-driven economy. Transitional Nabokov. Ed. Will Norman and Duncan White. New York: Peter Lang. 2009. xii, 311 pp. Paper, $58.95. The life of twentieth-century writer Vladimir Nabokov was marked by geo- graphic, linguistic, and professional transitions...

...- reflexivity and reveals the political messages camouflaged in her narratives. In four separate sections, Thornton engages the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes, Bourdieu, Derrida, and Macherey to reconfigure Welty’s role in the American literary landscape. Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction...

... to define itself. The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science. By Stephen H. Blackwell. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. xv, 276 pp. $54.95. The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was a devoted student of science, and his novels reflect a keen interest in biology...

.... Press . White Duncan . 2005 . “ ‘(I have camouflaged everything, my love)’: Lolita’s Pregnant Parentheses .” Nabokov Studies 9 : 47 – 64 . Williams Robert Grant . 1993 . “ Reading the Parenthesis .” SubStance 22 , no. 1 : 53 – 66 . Žižek Slavoj . 2003...

... Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, David Small, and Mark Twain. Readers less interested in historical poetics shoptalk, or less inclined to add to their bedside tables Stein’s 225-page-long Stanzas in Meditation (1956) or Merrill’s 560-page-long The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), will nonetheless...

... manages to bring together the narrators of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996), and she reads both as descendants of the Victorian dramatic monologue par excellence, Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” (1842), of all things. Ambitious in scope, Lyrical Strategies...

... Nabokov, Simone de Beauvoir, and Saul Steinberg, aesthetic experimentation across high and low “became the medium in which adjustments, resistances, and reorientations were actively worked through” (11). Norman’s use of Bourdieu’s concept of the cultural field enables a fundamental rereading...

... in important new directions: his four chapters consider the literary fiction of the period (Nabokov, Updike, the early E. L. Doctorow), the less-studied left- ist novels that followed and yet departed from proletarian fiction conventions...

... therapeutic” but ultimately “illusory” engage- ment with the “real” of violence from the atomic age to the war on terror (5). Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is offered as a fantastical yet very real historical palimpsest of nuclear war from which only art and the novel form can protect its readers...

... therapeutic” but ultimately “illusory” engage- ment with the “real” of violence from the atomic age to the war on terror (5). Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is offered as a fantastical yet very real historical palimpsest of nuclear war from which only art and the novel form can protect its readers...

... Nabokov’s ‘‘Pale Fire The Magic of Artistic Discovery. By Brian Boyd. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 303 pp. $29.95. Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov’s biographer, revises his earlier contention...

... at Buffalo Creek, 1780-1825 .” PhD diss. , Cornell University . Nabokov Peter . 2002 . A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . O’Brien Jean . 2010 . Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England...