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Re: Shakespeare: Applejohn and primrose--one Nabokovian
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From: sam schuman <schumans@CAA.MRS.UMN.EDU>
I was Samuel Schoenbaum's graduate research assistant when I was doing my Ph.D.
at Northwestern University, while he was finishing SHAKESPEARE'S LIVES. Alfred
Appel Jr. was also in that Department, at that time, shortly after the
publication of THE ANNOTATED LOLITA. (I actually taught briefly in a Freshman
Seminar course that Appel coordinated, so there was a year or so during which I
worked for both men.) The two books were certainly among the most conspicuous
of their day in that circle, and the Department was not so large that Schoenbaum
and Appel would not have been bumping into each other every day at the mail box
or coffee pot. Brian Boyd's recollection that Appel gave Nabokov Schoenbaum's
tome makes very good sense to me.
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
and Dean
University of Minnesota, Morris
SCHUMANS@CAA.MRS.UMN.EDU
320-589-6015
I was Samuel Schoenbaum's graduate research assistant when I was doing my Ph.D.
at Northwestern University, while he was finishing SHAKESPEARE'S LIVES. Alfred
Appel Jr. was also in that Department, at that time, shortly after the
publication of THE ANNOTATED LOLITA. (I actually taught briefly in a Freshman
Seminar course that Appel coordinated, so there was a year or so during which I
worked for both men.) The two books were certainly among the most conspicuous
of their day in that circle, and the Department was not so large that Schoenbaum
and Appel would not have been bumping into each other every day at the mail box
or coffee pot. Brian Boyd's recollection that Appel gave Nabokov Schoenbaum's
tome makes very good sense to me.
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
and Dean
University of Minnesota, Morris
SCHUMANS@CAA.MRS.UMN.EDU
320-589-6015