...Marijeta Bozovic Nabokov, History, and the Texture of Time . By Norman Will . Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature, 19 . New York : Routledge , 2012 . xvi, 205 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Appel Alfred Jr. Nabokov's...

...Gavriel Shapiro Among the various texts that Nabokov consulted when writing Invitation to a Beheading was his father's Prison Pastimes ( Tiuremnye dosugi , 1908), which Nabokov senior wrote after spending three months in St. Petersburg Kresty prison for having been a signatory to the Vyborg...

...Eric Naiman This article explores the role of surveillance in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin both within its contemporary political context and as a response to two earlier examples of American campus fiction: Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution and Mary McCarthy's The Groves of Academe...

...JOANNA TRZECIAK Although Nabokov dismissed Freud as a trivial and vulgar thinker and derided him at every turn, the presence of Freud and Freudianism is quite conspicuous in his works. With great vigilance, Nabokov anticipates and short-circuits potential Freudian interpretations of his work...

...Stanislav Shvabrin Overlooked by students of John Keats's reception in Russia and misattributed by scholars researching the earliest stages of the writer's evolution, Vladimir Nabokov's Russian domestication of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (1921) poses before its interpreter a set of problems ranging...

..., Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999 . Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov. The Russian Years . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990 . Calvino, Italo. Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto . A cura di Mario Barenghi. Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 2002 . Canetti...

....” The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov . Ed. Vladimir Alexandrov. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995 . 135 -69. Fernandez, Ramon. “La figure de la vie dans les Faux-Monnayeurs.” Nouvelle revue française 27 .189, 1 July 1926 : 98 -103. Fokkema, Douwe. “A Semiotic Definition of Aesthetic...

...Byungsam Jung Abstract This article analyzes two types of visual perception in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955): camera obscura and camera lucida , terms that are taken from photography and painting, respectively. By applying these terms, this article identifies a visual dilemma in how an artist...

...Dana Dragunoiu Abstract The article contributes to the long-standing debate about Lolita’ s final nine chapters by arguing for a much tighter connection than previously acknowledged between Nabokov’s most famous novel and Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. Turning on the claim that Dolly’s...

... and essentially external reading. Where mise en abyme is typically associated with the self-enclosed autonomy of the artwork, allegory tends in the opposite direction by treating the text as a disposable means to a proper meaning. Through readings of the chess motifs in Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life...

... . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991 . Hegel, G.F.W. The Phenomenology of Mind . New York: Harper & Row, 1967 . Johnson, D. Barton. “A Guide to Nabokov's `A Guide to Berlin.'” Slavic and East European Journal 23 ( 1979 ): 353 -61. Kuhn, Thomas. The Copernican Revolution...

... The University of British Columbia DOI 10.1215/00104124-3462691 Nabokov, History, and the Texture of Time. By Will Norman. Routledge Transna- tional Perspectives on American Literature, 19. New York: Routledge, 2012. xvi, 205 p...

... Partha . “ Decentering Modernism: Art History and Avant-Garde Art from the Periphery .” The Art Bulletin , vol. 90 , no. 4 , 2008 , pp. 531 – 48 . Nabokov Vladimir . Nikolai Gogol . 1944 . New Directions , 1961 . Panofsky Erwin . Perspective as Symbolic Form [“Die...

...: Nabokov's Homecoming.” Realms of Exile: Nomadism, Diasporas, and Eastern European Voices . Ed. Domnica Radulescu. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002 . 67 –86. Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination . Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . ———. “Response...

...–1837) is a decidedly prephotographic figure, as Vladimir Nabokov makes a point of noting in his essay “Pushkin; or, The Real and the Plausible”: “Imagine—if Pushkin had lived another two or three years we would have had his photograph. Just one more step and he would have emerged from the night, rich...

... an Aesopian one, is exemplified for Boym by the butterfly’s gratuitously detailed and beautiful mimetic markings. Boym quotes Nabokov: “When a butterfly has to look like a leaf, not only are all the details of a leaf beautifully rendered but markings mimicking grub-bored holes are generously thrown in” ( 360...

... from the overlaps and contradictions among Soviet, Jewish, and American theories about the relationship between identity and place. They also carry on the tradition of anti-nationalist mediations on Russian, Jewish, and Russian-Jewish wandering associated with such writers as Vladimir Nabokov...

... of California Press, 1993 . Miner, Earl. Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990 . Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994 . Nabokov...

.... “The Impossibly Many Loves of Charles Swann: The Myth of Proustian Love and the Reader's ‘Impression’ in Un Amour De Swann.” Poetics Today 28 . 4 ( 2007 ): 619 – 52 . Print . Píchová Hana . The Art of Memory in Exile: Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera . Carbondale : Southern Illinois UP...

... of literariness in evidence: echoes of earlier literary forms and periods and of specifi c writers from Classical Greece to key fi gures of High Modernism (Rilke, Kafka, Proust, Nabokov) abound. On the other, there is a register that unmistakably bespeaks and expresses documentary solidity and authenticity...