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[NABOKOV LIST] [ Proposal, new readings] Don, Schuman, Aleppo...
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Chastised by the realization that it is impossible to be a "good" VN reader without understanding a reference in a title of his short-stories ( particularly the twist in "That in Aleppo once" ) I decided to google the archives for further clues. I also wanted to recover a posting by Schuman. So I chose: NABOKV-L Archives -- September 2002 (#73)- ... I suggest new readings of three short stories-"Lik," "That in Aleppo Once. ... GENERAL SESSION July 15 Samuel Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris, ...
listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0209&L=nabokv-l&P=8730 - 160k -
I selected, just as an example:
Donald Barton Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"Signs & Symbols": Nabokov & Iconicity
Iconicity is one of the techniques Nabokov uses to surmount the limitations of language. Prominent among these devices is alphabetic iconicism, the use of a letter's physical shape to carry meaning: words mean; letters (sometimes) illustrate or mimic topic and/or theme.
After a brief survey of iconic types, I set out to explore Nabokov's attempts to draw various other kinds of typographic signs into his stylistic arsenal. These include punctuation such as exclamation points, question marks, ellipses; figures, such as parentheses; and even type faces such as italic.
We shall see that Nabokov, the consummate artist, employs these almost subliminal signs and symbols and integrates them into the architecture of his art.
Samuel Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA
"A poem, a poem, forsooth:" Immortality and Transformation in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Nabokov's Novels
In the Sonnets, especially numbers 15-20, Wm. Shakespeare evokes the motif of immortality at several levels. Nabokov's novels are similarly evocative. Both authors see in the work of art a means of eternalizing the subject of the poem or novel, and its author as well. And, in works such as Sonnet 18, and Lolita or Ada, this immortality is achieved through a kind of transmutation of the author and the beloved "into" the literary work. For both writers, this theme seems to combine literary technique and autobiographical intensity. The force which creates these transformations is the power of love and the magic of language.
( both offered as Abstracts of papers at the NABOKOV SYMPOSIUM (July 15-19, 2002) Saint Petersburg.
How about that? "'I suggest new readings of" some other VN short stories..."That in Aleppo Once", "Spring in Fialta"....
Jansy
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listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0209&L=nabokv-l&P=8730 - 160k -
I selected, just as an example:
Donald Barton Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"Signs & Symbols": Nabokov & Iconicity
Iconicity is one of the techniques Nabokov uses to surmount the limitations of language. Prominent among these devices is alphabetic iconicism, the use of a letter's physical shape to carry meaning: words mean; letters (sometimes) illustrate or mimic topic and/or theme.
After a brief survey of iconic types, I set out to explore Nabokov's attempts to draw various other kinds of typographic signs into his stylistic arsenal. These include punctuation such as exclamation points, question marks, ellipses; figures, such as parentheses; and even type faces such as italic.
We shall see that Nabokov, the consummate artist, employs these almost subliminal signs and symbols and integrates them into the architecture of his art.
Samuel Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA
"A poem, a poem, forsooth:" Immortality and Transformation in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Nabokov's Novels
In the Sonnets, especially numbers 15-20, Wm. Shakespeare evokes the motif of immortality at several levels. Nabokov's novels are similarly evocative. Both authors see in the work of art a means of eternalizing the subject of the poem or novel, and its author as well. And, in works such as Sonnet 18, and Lolita or Ada, this immortality is achieved through a kind of transmutation of the author and the beloved "into" the literary work. For both writers, this theme seems to combine literary technique and autobiographical intensity. The force which creates these transformations is the power of love and the magic of language.
( both offered as Abstracts of papers at the NABOKOV SYMPOSIUM (July 15-19, 2002) Saint Petersburg.
How about that? "'I suggest new readings of" some other VN short stories..."That in Aleppo Once", "Spring in Fialta"....
Jansy
Search archive with Google:
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