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VN, Lacan, & Ermarth (fwd)
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From: Dustin Coppock Pascoe <dcpasc0@pop.uky.edu>
My apologies for not taking note of M. Edelstein's question earlier; to make
up for it, here's the Ermarth citation, and maybe no one will have to go
digging through dusty old piles of journals:
"Conspicuous Construction: or, Kristeva, Nabokov, and the anti-Realist
Critique." _Novel_ 21 (1988): 330-339.
I do not know if this essay is included in her recent book.
While I'm at it, does anyone want to hazard a guess (or point me in a
specific direction) about VN's feelings toward the professionalization of
the (literature) teaching culture? I know that he did some serious
scholarly work on Pushkin and Gogol (and the _Slovo_), but as someone who
believed that you had to read with your spine, he might have felt that the
emphasis on critical enquiry (and we know, generally, what he thought of
that) was detracting from the mission of teaching "great" books. Have I
answered my own question? Feedback?
Dustin C. Pascoe
University of Kentucky
"Ah, you bright and risen angels, you are all in your graves! I, your
author, am lonely . . ."
My apologies for not taking note of M. Edelstein's question earlier; to make
up for it, here's the Ermarth citation, and maybe no one will have to go
digging through dusty old piles of journals:
"Conspicuous Construction: or, Kristeva, Nabokov, and the anti-Realist
Critique." _Novel_ 21 (1988): 330-339.
I do not know if this essay is included in her recent book.
While I'm at it, does anyone want to hazard a guess (or point me in a
specific direction) about VN's feelings toward the professionalization of
the (literature) teaching culture? I know that he did some serious
scholarly work on Pushkin and Gogol (and the _Slovo_), but as someone who
believed that you had to read with your spine, he might have felt that the
emphasis on critical enquiry (and we know, generally, what he thought of
that) was detracting from the mission of teaching "great" books. Have I
answered my own question? Feedback?
Dustin C. Pascoe
University of Kentucky
"Ah, you bright and risen angels, you are all in your graves! I, your
author, am lonely . . ."