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Dear List,
I have an essay in the "Commentary," section of this week's TLS (7/
1/05), entitled "Shades of Frost: a Hidden Source for Nabokov's
Pale Fire." Although copyright issues (and probably length)
preclude my attaching the entire piece, I will quote part of a
parenthetical paragraph, to give you a sense of the argument.
"With regard to Pale Fire and a particular short poem of Frost's--
which will not turn out to be "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy
Evening," although, in a way, it will be close--I claim neither
"cryptomnesia" nor, certainly, plagiarism, but rather a delicate but
demonstrable network of inspiration and allusion. This discovery
is both less surprising (every reader of Pale Fire also knows that
John Shade resembles Robert Frost) and more revealing, for it
shows Nabokov in the act of conscious composition and similarly
conscious camouflage."
I have learned a lot from this list (which is cited towards the end of
my article) and from several of its members, and would be
interested in hearing your responses, on or off-list.
Best Nabokovian Regards,
Abe Socher
Oberlin College
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I have an essay in the "Commentary," section of this week's TLS (7/
1/05), entitled "Shades of Frost: a Hidden Source for Nabokov's
Pale Fire." Although copyright issues (and probably length)
preclude my attaching the entire piece, I will quote part of a
parenthetical paragraph, to give you a sense of the argument.
"With regard to Pale Fire and a particular short poem of Frost's--
which will not turn out to be "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy
Evening," although, in a way, it will be close--I claim neither
"cryptomnesia" nor, certainly, plagiarism, but rather a delicate but
demonstrable network of inspiration and allusion. This discovery
is both less surprising (every reader of Pale Fire also knows that
John Shade resembles Robert Frost) and more revealing, for it
shows Nabokov in the act of conscious composition and similarly
conscious camouflage."
I have learned a lot from this list (which is cited towards the end of
my article) and from several of its members, and would be
interested in hearing your responses, on or off-list.
Best Nabokovian Regards,
Abe Socher
Oberlin College
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