Subject
QUERY: Nabokov and Walt Disney
From
Date
Body
Dear All,
As background for an essay, I am exploring VN's familiarity with Walt Disney as well as references to Disney (no matter how slight) in Nabokov criticism.
As far as I can tell, Nabokov only referred to Disney in print twice: in LOLITA, when Shirley Holmes invites HH to tour the cabins at Camp Q, "each dedicated to a Disney creature" (p. 110), and in his essay "On Adaptation," which compares Robert Lowell's translation of Mandelstam to "a foxtrot in Disneyland" (p. 282). VN also made some comments about Disney to Alfred Appel Jr. that Appel quotes in NABOKOV'S DARK CINEMA.
My search for references to Disney in Nabokov criticism is still ongoing but so far includes an early reviewer of TRLSK as well as Appel, M. Keith Booker, Emily Collins, Leona Toker, and Michael Wood. I have consulted other sources on VN and film or comic art (Brown, Shapiro, and Wyllie).
I'd be grateful for any suggestions (even if tenuous and half-remembered) re: sources I may have missed or Nabokovian images that seem somehow reminiscent of a Disney cartoon. Feel free to reply to me offlist.
Thanks in advance,
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
nabokv-l@holycross.edu
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
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
As background for an essay, I am exploring VN's familiarity with Walt Disney as well as references to Disney (no matter how slight) in Nabokov criticism.
As far as I can tell, Nabokov only referred to Disney in print twice: in LOLITA, when Shirley Holmes invites HH to tour the cabins at Camp Q, "each dedicated to a Disney creature" (p. 110), and in his essay "On Adaptation," which compares Robert Lowell's translation of Mandelstam to "a foxtrot in Disneyland" (p. 282). VN also made some comments about Disney to Alfred Appel Jr. that Appel quotes in NABOKOV'S DARK CINEMA.
My search for references to Disney in Nabokov criticism is still ongoing but so far includes an early reviewer of TRLSK as well as Appel, M. Keith Booker, Emily Collins, Leona Toker, and Michael Wood. I have consulted other sources on VN and film or comic art (Brown, Shapiro, and Wyllie).
I'd be grateful for any suggestions (even if tenuous and half-remembered) re: sources I may have missed or Nabokovian images that seem somehow reminiscent of a Disney cartoon. Feel free to reply to me offlist.
Thanks in advance,
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
nabokv-l@holycross.edu
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
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/