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1.
Contributors [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004 - Article
(Search score: 942)
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2. Barabtarlo, Gennady 1949-
Life's Sequel [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 1-21 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Assistant producer.
Miller, Evgenii Karlovich, 1867-1937 -- Kidnapping, 1937.
Abstract
Nabokov's first, and atypical, American story, "The Assistant Producer,"
ends almost as soon as the author runs out of the "real life" material. This
article supplies a continuation based on documents recently discovered by a
Russian researcher, mostly letters of General Miller (the General Fedchenko of
the story) from his cell in the N.K.V.D. prison, where he spent twenty months
after his abduction and before his execution.
(Search score: 951)
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3. Bellino, Mary
Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (review) [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 211-216 - Review
(Search score: 952)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
4. Boyd, Brian 1952-
Ada, the Bog and the Garden: or, Straw, Fluff, and Peat: Sources and
Places in Ada [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 107-133 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Ada -- Sources.
Freeling, Nicolas - Double barrel.
Bosch, Hieronymus, d. 1516 - Garden of delights [visual works]
Rimbaud, Arthur 1854-1891
Abstract
Nabokov's discovery in 1964 or 1965, in a crime novel by Nicholas
Freeling, DoubleBarrel,that the Dutch word veen means "marsh, bog, peat"
appears to have shaped Ada from an early stage, perhaps via the slight whiff of
incest and the concentrated theme of eavesdropping or tom-peeping in Freeling's
novel. Linking veen and Venus, Nabokov also drew on the image of a garden of
earthly love endlessly repeated in Bosch's masterpiece to create his
characters' Ardis or paradise as a garden of Eden or Venus that subsides into a
moral bog, as Bosch's triptych moves from Eden to repetition of seemingly Edenic
delights to Hell, in part by way of a third source, Fowlie's mistranslation of
the word for "marsh marigold" in Rimbaud's "Mémoire." A fourth source, the
Barton and Guestier advertisement mimicking Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the
Paris café Le Divan japonais, suggested a different kind of repetition, but
Nabokov, unexpectedly, makes it also combine with the veen-as-"marsh, bog,
peat" theme and the moral mire of Ardis.
(Search score: 965)
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5. Casmier, Stephen
A Speck of Coal Dust: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin and the Possibility of
Translation [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 71-86 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Pnin.
Pain in literature.
Abstract
Pnin foregrounds the agonies of translation through a thematic treatment
of pain, which is the white noise of the novel, a constant pulse throbbing in
the background. The ideas of Wittgenstein and Elaine Scarry suggest that pain
is fundamentally resistant to language; Pnin, which invokes both personal and
historical suffering, stages a critical response to contemporary theories of
translation that have attempted to transform human "suffering" into an
"inhuman" linguistic phenomenon. Through the novel's cavalier play with
ontological and epistemological boundaries-recreating author as character while
invoking physical suffering and the immutable tragedy of the Holocaust-Nabokov
creates a character who also "leaves his creator's desk," despite attempts by
the narrative to translate, limit, ridicule, and appropriate him. This
discussion presents a response to recent questions regarding the role of
suffering in Nabokov's work raised by Zoran Kuzmanovich and Elena Sommers.
(Search score: 968)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
6. Ferger, George
Who's Who in the Sublimelight: "Suave John Ray" and Lolita's "Secret
Points" [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 137-198 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Lolita.
Abstract
Dismissed by critics as unimportant, John Ray, Jr. emerges as a diabolical
conspirator, appropriating Humbert's memoir for his own purposes. Nabokov's sly
guidance in the afterword to Lolita directs the reader to ten focal images,
"the subliminal co-ordinates by which the book is plotted," "secret points"
strewn with covert clues to a surprising subtext. After resurrecting Quilty,
Ray, as "surgeon of genius," operates on Humbert's language, thoughts, and
fate. Humbert's theft of Lolita's body and life is thus mirrored by Ray's
exploitation of Humbert. "Obscure indications," among them echoes of the
Foreword, spectral "fingerprints," uncorrected solecisms such as Humbert's
confused calendar, and "shadowgraphs" crediting Ray's contributions, taken
together with Nabokov's teasing hints in interviews and repeated taunts in the
novel urging close inspection of the text, lead the reader to the unmasking of
Ray and the exposure of Humbert, once and for all, as false artist and
insincere penitent.
(Search score: 1000)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
7. Goldman, Eric
"Knowing" Lolita: Sexual Deviance and Normality in Nabokov's Lolita
[View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 87-104 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Lolita.
Sex in literature.
Abstract
Lolita exposes the volatility and relativity of the binary of "deviant"
and "normal" sexuality prevalent in 1950s America. Like Alfred Kinsey's
"reports," Lolita challenges assumptions about what constitutes "normal"
sexuality. Although it parodies the new science of sexology made famous by the
Kinsey reports, it opposes a scientific perspective of a potentially "normal"
Lolita to Humbert's mythological framework for her-a framework that turns her
into a specially depraved "nymphet" who "seduces" Humbert. The scientific
perspective of Lolita the novel subtly makes available exposes the misogyny of
Humbert's mythic perspective.
(Search score: 989)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
8. Grant, Paul Benedict
Nabokov at Cornell (review) [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 216-224 - Review
(Search score: 983)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
9.
Index [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 225-228 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov studies -- Indexes.
(Search score: 917)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
10. Kuzmanovich, Zoran
From the Editor [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004 - Article
(Search score: 942)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
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1.
Contributors [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004 - Article
(Search score: 942)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
2. Barabtarlo, Gennady 1949-
Life's Sequel [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 1-21 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Assistant producer.
Miller, Evgenii Karlovich, 1867-1937 -- Kidnapping, 1937.
Abstract
Nabokov's first, and atypical, American story, "The Assistant Producer,"
ends almost as soon as the author runs out of the "real life" material. This
article supplies a continuation based on documents recently discovered by a
Russian researcher, mostly letters of General Miller (the General Fedchenko of
the story) from his cell in the N.K.V.D. prison, where he spent twenty months
after his abduction and before his execution.
(Search score: 951)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
3. Bellino, Mary
Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (review) [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 211-216 - Review
(Search score: 952)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
4. Boyd, Brian 1952-
Ada, the Bog and the Garden: or, Straw, Fluff, and Peat: Sources and
Places in Ada [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 107-133 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Ada -- Sources.
Freeling, Nicolas - Double barrel.
Bosch, Hieronymus, d. 1516 - Garden of delights [visual works]
Rimbaud, Arthur 1854-1891
Abstract
Nabokov's discovery in 1964 or 1965, in a crime novel by Nicholas
Freeling, DoubleBarrel,that the Dutch word veen means "marsh, bog, peat"
appears to have shaped Ada from an early stage, perhaps via the slight whiff of
incest and the concentrated theme of eavesdropping or tom-peeping in Freeling's
novel. Linking veen and Venus, Nabokov also drew on the image of a garden of
earthly love endlessly repeated in Bosch's masterpiece to create his
characters' Ardis or paradise as a garden of Eden or Venus that subsides into a
moral bog, as Bosch's triptych moves from Eden to repetition of seemingly Edenic
delights to Hell, in part by way of a third source, Fowlie's mistranslation of
the word for "marsh marigold" in Rimbaud's "Mémoire." A fourth source, the
Barton and Guestier advertisement mimicking Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the
Paris café Le Divan japonais, suggested a different kind of repetition, but
Nabokov, unexpectedly, makes it also combine with the veen-as-"marsh, bog,
peat" theme and the moral mire of Ardis.
(Search score: 965)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
5. Casmier, Stephen
A Speck of Coal Dust: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin and the Possibility of
Translation [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 71-86 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Pnin.
Pain in literature.
Abstract
Pnin foregrounds the agonies of translation through a thematic treatment
of pain, which is the white noise of the novel, a constant pulse throbbing in
the background. The ideas of Wittgenstein and Elaine Scarry suggest that pain
is fundamentally resistant to language; Pnin, which invokes both personal and
historical suffering, stages a critical response to contemporary theories of
translation that have attempted to transform human "suffering" into an
"inhuman" linguistic phenomenon. Through the novel's cavalier play with
ontological and epistemological boundaries-recreating author as character while
invoking physical suffering and the immutable tragedy of the Holocaust-Nabokov
creates a character who also "leaves his creator's desk," despite attempts by
the narrative to translate, limit, ridicule, and appropriate him. This
discussion presents a response to recent questions regarding the role of
suffering in Nabokov's work raised by Zoran Kuzmanovich and Elena Sommers.
(Search score: 968)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
6. Ferger, George
Who's Who in the Sublimelight: "Suave John Ray" and Lolita's "Secret
Points" [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 137-198 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Lolita.
Abstract
Dismissed by critics as unimportant, John Ray, Jr. emerges as a diabolical
conspirator, appropriating Humbert's memoir for his own purposes. Nabokov's sly
guidance in the afterword to Lolita directs the reader to ten focal images,
"the subliminal co-ordinates by which the book is plotted," "secret points"
strewn with covert clues to a surprising subtext. After resurrecting Quilty,
Ray, as "surgeon of genius," operates on Humbert's language, thoughts, and
fate. Humbert's theft of Lolita's body and life is thus mirrored by Ray's
exploitation of Humbert. "Obscure indications," among them echoes of the
Foreword, spectral "fingerprints," uncorrected solecisms such as Humbert's
confused calendar, and "shadowgraphs" crediting Ray's contributions, taken
together with Nabokov's teasing hints in interviews and repeated taunts in the
novel urging close inspection of the text, lead the reader to the unmasking of
Ray and the exposure of Humbert, once and for all, as false artist and
insincere penitent.
(Search score: 1000)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
7. Goldman, Eric
"Knowing" Lolita: Sexual Deviance and Normality in Nabokov's Lolita
[View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 87-104 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 - Lolita.
Sex in literature.
Abstract
Lolita exposes the volatility and relativity of the binary of "deviant"
and "normal" sexuality prevalent in 1950s America. Like Alfred Kinsey's
"reports," Lolita challenges assumptions about what constitutes "normal"
sexuality. Although it parodies the new science of sexology made famous by the
Kinsey reports, it opposes a scientific perspective of a potentially "normal"
Lolita to Humbert's mythological framework for her-a framework that turns her
into a specially depraved "nymphet" who "seduces" Humbert. The scientific
perspective of Lolita the novel subtly makes available exposes the misogyny of
Humbert's mythic perspective.
(Search score: 989)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
8. Grant, Paul Benedict
Nabokov at Cornell (review) [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 216-224 - Review
(Search score: 983)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
9.
Index [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004, pp. 225-228 - Article
Subjects:
Nabokov studies -- Indexes.
(Search score: 917)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
10. Kuzmanovich, Zoran
From the Editor [View in PDF]
Nabokov Studies - Volume 8, 2004 - Article
(Search score: 942)
[Show Occurrences in Context]
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