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Re: New Yorker "Conclusive Evidence": Barbara Braun, Whitman,etc.
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EDITOR's NOTE. Priscilla Meyer <pmeyer@mail.wesleyan.edu>, author of
_Find What the Sailor has Hidden_, a 1988 study of PALE FIRE, as well as
many other VN studies, offers an ingenious theory of Ms. Braun's _While
Lilics Last_. She is also the organizer of the 12-14 March conference
"1799, 1899, 1999: Pushkin, Nabokov and Intertextuality" at Wesleyan
University, CT.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich, which in cyrillic looks like BB.
Lilac for VN is usually associated with the border between this world and
the otherworld.
VN often casts the opposition America/Russia as a parodic version of this
world/otherworld.
This suggests that BB's "WLL" is the mortal American mirror image of VN's
Russian memoir.This accounts for combining BB's relatively silly book with
VN's memoir.
Priscilla
_Find What the Sailor has Hidden_, a 1988 study of PALE FIRE, as well as
many other VN studies, offers an ingenious theory of Ms. Braun's _While
Lilics Last_. She is also the organizer of the 12-14 March conference
"1799, 1899, 1999: Pushkin, Nabokov and Intertextuality" at Wesleyan
University, CT.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich, which in cyrillic looks like BB.
Lilac for VN is usually associated with the border between this world and
the otherworld.
VN often casts the opposition America/Russia as a parodic version of this
world/otherworld.
This suggests that BB's "WLL" is the mortal American mirror image of VN's
Russian memoir.This accounts for combining BB's relatively silly book with
VN's memoir.
Priscilla