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Yes, Frances, I happen to know.
I'll also be speaking, in the Midwest, at the University of Notre Dame, on Nabokov as Psychologist at 4pm on April 5, at 209 De Bortolo Hall, and on The Story Mind at 4 pm on April 6, Rm 210 McKenna Hall. (Other than that, George Washington University and the University of Kansas are my only speaking engagements on this rip.)
Here are abstracts of the two talks:
Nabokov as Psychologist: Routes for Exploration
Nabokov once responded to Robbe-Grillet’s claims that his fiction eliminated psychology by calling them “preposterous. . . . the shifts of levels, the interpenetration of successive impressions and so forth belong of course to psychology—psychology at its best.” Reminded of this in another interview, and asked “Are you a psychological novelist?” he answered: “All novelists of any worth are psychological novelists.”
Perhaps it is time to expand our sense of Nabokov, and of the psychology of fiction, by considering him as a passionate (and of course a playful) psychologist. To what extent does he replicate or anticipate findings in abnormal, clinical, personality and social psychology, in the psychology of perception, attention, emotion, memory, and imagination? What precursors in fictional psychology (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Proust, Joyce?) does he emulate or challenge? What can we learn from both the psychology implicit and explicit in the characters of his fiction, and from the psychology implicit in his relation to his readers?
The Story Mind
Why do we love fiction? How did evolution shape our minds to see the world in narrative terms, and to crave even stories we know to be untrue? Does fiction love us back: does it offer us benefits, or only distraction?
And here's a map of the Notre Dame campus: http://map.nd.edu/
De Bartolo Hall is to the left of the stadium, and McKenna Hall to the left of that.
I'm sending two posters as attachments but am not sure they'll come through on the list.
Brian Boyd
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of frances assa [franassa@HOTMAIL.COM]
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I'm wondering if anyone knows whether Brian Boyd will be speaking at any other midwest campuses in addition to Kansas? I'm esp. interested in Wisconsin and Chicago. Thanks, Fran Assa
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:53:01 -0300
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Nabokov as Psychologist - Brian Boyd
Lecture on Thursday March 31, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Kansas Union, Malott Room
Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will speak on Nabokov as Psychologist. Prof. Boyd is a renowned expert on the writer Vladimir Nabokov. His broader interests include narrative, evolution and cognition; the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabokov); Shakespeare; Spiegelman; literature and science; biography.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures<http://www.ku.edu/~slavic>
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
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I'll also be speaking, in the Midwest, at the University of Notre Dame, on Nabokov as Psychologist at 4pm on April 5, at 209 De Bortolo Hall, and on The Story Mind at 4 pm on April 6, Rm 210 McKenna Hall. (Other than that, George Washington University and the University of Kansas are my only speaking engagements on this rip.)
Here are abstracts of the two talks:
Nabokov as Psychologist: Routes for Exploration
Nabokov once responded to Robbe-Grillet’s claims that his fiction eliminated psychology by calling them “preposterous. . . . the shifts of levels, the interpenetration of successive impressions and so forth belong of course to psychology—psychology at its best.” Reminded of this in another interview, and asked “Are you a psychological novelist?” he answered: “All novelists of any worth are psychological novelists.”
Perhaps it is time to expand our sense of Nabokov, and of the psychology of fiction, by considering him as a passionate (and of course a playful) psychologist. To what extent does he replicate or anticipate findings in abnormal, clinical, personality and social psychology, in the psychology of perception, attention, emotion, memory, and imagination? What precursors in fictional psychology (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Proust, Joyce?) does he emulate or challenge? What can we learn from both the psychology implicit and explicit in the characters of his fiction, and from the psychology implicit in his relation to his readers?
The Story Mind
Why do we love fiction? How did evolution shape our minds to see the world in narrative terms, and to crave even stories we know to be untrue? Does fiction love us back: does it offer us benefits, or only distraction?
And here's a map of the Notre Dame campus: http://map.nd.edu/
De Bartolo Hall is to the left of the stadium, and McKenna Hall to the left of that.
I'm sending two posters as attachments but am not sure they'll come through on the list.
Brian Boyd
________________________________________
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of frances assa [franassa@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 4:30 p.m.
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV-L] [SIGHTING] Nabokov as Psychologist
I'm wondering if anyone knows whether Brian Boyd will be speaking at any other midwest campuses in addition to Kansas? I'm esp. interested in Wisconsin and Chicago. Thanks, Fran Assa
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:53:01 -0300
From: jansy@AETERN.US
Subject: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV-L] [SIGHTING] Nabokov as Psychologist
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Nabokov as Psychologist - Brian Boyd
Lecture on Thursday March 31, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Kansas Union, Malott Room
Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will speak on Nabokov as Psychologist. Prof. Boyd is a renowned expert on the writer Vladimir Nabokov. His broader interests include narrative, evolution and cognition; the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabokov); Shakespeare; Spiegelman; literature and science; biography.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures<http://www.ku.edu/~slavic>
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact the Editors<mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov Online Journal"<http://www.nabokovonline.com/>
Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View Nabokv-L Policies<http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Manage subscription options<http://listserv.ucsb.edu/>
All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both co-editors.
Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact the Editors<mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov Online Journal"<http://www.nabokovonline.com>
Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View Nabokv-L Policies<http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Manage subscription options<http://listserv.ucsb.edu/>
All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both co-editors.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
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