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Please forgive the self-promotional aspect of this message, but I would like
to invite all interested Nabokovians and Nabokophiles to take a look at "A
Guide to Kinbote's Commentary," a kind of phenomenological study of the
reference patterns in Kinbote's commentary that appeared on Zembla earlier
this month together with a companion essay called "Synthesizing Artistic
Delight: The Lesson of Pale Fire." The screenshot below comes from the
explanation of the diagrams, which track Kinbote's diversions of the reader
to other parts of the text(s). The "Guide" maps all such references in the
commentary's 131 notes and shows, among other things, a fairly precipitous
drop in the number of such diversions in the notes keyed to the later lines
of the poem (an interesting aspect that the essay addresses). My hope and
intention in submitting the diagrams to Zembla was to provide anyone
interested with an opportunity to consider this much-discussed work from an
unusual perspective (and perhaps to open up some new lines of inquiry into
it).
Here's a link to the "Guide":
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/walter2.htm
And here's a link to the companion article, "Synthesizing Artistic Delight":
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/walter.htm
Thank you.
Brian Walter
bdwlecteur@mac.com
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to invite all interested Nabokovians and Nabokophiles to take a look at "A
Guide to Kinbote's Commentary," a kind of phenomenological study of the
reference patterns in Kinbote's commentary that appeared on Zembla earlier
this month together with a companion essay called "Synthesizing Artistic
Delight: The Lesson of Pale Fire." The screenshot below comes from the
explanation of the diagrams, which track Kinbote's diversions of the reader
to other parts of the text(s). The "Guide" maps all such references in the
commentary's 131 notes and shows, among other things, a fairly precipitous
drop in the number of such diversions in the notes keyed to the later lines
of the poem (an interesting aspect that the essay addresses). My hope and
intention in submitting the diagrams to Zembla was to provide anyone
interested with an opportunity to consider this much-discussed work from an
unusual perspective (and perhaps to open up some new lines of inquiry into
it).
Here's a link to the "Guide":
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/walter2.htm
And here's a link to the companion article, "Synthesizing Artistic Delight":
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/walter.htm
Thank you.
Brian Walter
bdwlecteur@mac.com
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
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
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