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Also, a paper by Priscilla Meyer cites a paper by Shoshanna Knapp including
a sentence that begins "Both Hazel and little Haze..."
Shoshanna Knapp, 'Hazel Ablaze: Literary License in Nabokov's Pale Fire',
Essays in Literature, 14, Spring 1987, 1, pp 105-15.
Priscilla Meyer's paper, "Nabokov and the Spirits", is at <
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=div1facpubs
>.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth <
ssweeney@holycross.edu> wrote:
> Nicol, Charles. "Hazel and Haze,L: Families and Anti-Families." Paper
> delivered at the Vladimir Nabokov Society Meeting, MLA Convention,
> Washington, DC, 1996.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Charles Nicol <chaznicol@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Well, I 'm not necessarily claiming to be first to notice Haze and
>> Hazel, but years ago--almost certainly pre-1999--I delivered a paper at MLA
>> at a Nabokov session titled "Families and Anti-families." My paper was
>> titled "Hazel and Haze, L.," and compared scenes from Lolita and Pale Fire
>> that both had "father," mother and "daughter" shouting from
>> different rooms as they read and worked. I no longer have those old
>> programs with me, but maybe somebody else (preferably the session
>> organizer) can verify this.
>>
>> Thanks from Charles Nicol.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:07 PM, Jansy Mello <
>> jansy.nabokv-L@AETERN.US> wrote:
>>
>>
>> *Matt Roth*: *In a forthcoming article, I talk about the Hazel-Haze, L.
>> coincidence, but I was unable to track down who first wrote about it. Does
>> anyone have an earlier reference than the Rosenbaum article?*
>> *Jansy Mello*: In 1999 Ron Rosenbaum publicly vindicated his discovery,
>> if neither Boyd nor anyone else claimed it ("..* one detail I can't
>> believe someone else hasn't noticed, but one I'd be delighted to get credit
>> for noticing first: The ghost within the name "Hazel," the ghost of Lolita*.")
>> He must have taken pride in it, too, because a "pale ghost" is the first
>> thing that haunts our eyes in the title (and the link) to his article:
>> http://observer.com/1999/04/nabokovs-pale-ghost-a-scholar-retracts/#ixzz2uBC21CAj
>>
>>
>>
>> *C. Kunin*: *"I was going to say that Kinbote was probably looking on,
>> but it can't be ... he hasn't made the trip to America yet, so I guess at
>> this point neither is aware of the other. Right?"*
>> *Jansy Mello*: We know that Shade started to write "Pale Fire" in the
>> Summer under Kinbote's dedicated eavesdropping and this is why I don't get
>> you when you write that "at this point neither is aware of the other."
>> I surmise that Shade was then too absorbed in his poetic elaborations to
>> worry about his persistent neighbor during the process of finding himself
>> in a "crystal land" (he wasn't having one of his fits, either, another
>> instance of his splitting). You must be meaning Gradus, not Kinbote
>> himself (note to lines 1-4): "*The poem was begun at the dead center of
>> the year, a few minutes after midnight July 1, while I played chess with a
>> young Iranian enrolled in our summer school; and I do not doubt that our
>> poet would have understood his annotator's temptation to synchronize a
>> certain fateful fact, the departure from Zembla of the would-be regicide
>> Gradus, with that date. Actually, Gradus left Onhava on the Copenhagen
>> plane on July 5.**" *
>> Of course! Nice "incorporation"...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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a sentence that begins "Both Hazel and little Haze..."
Shoshanna Knapp, 'Hazel Ablaze: Literary License in Nabokov's Pale Fire',
Essays in Literature, 14, Spring 1987, 1, pp 105-15.
Priscilla Meyer's paper, "Nabokov and the Spirits", is at <
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=div1facpubs
>.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth <
ssweeney@holycross.edu> wrote:
> Nicol, Charles. "Hazel and Haze,L: Families and Anti-Families." Paper
> delivered at the Vladimir Nabokov Society Meeting, MLA Convention,
> Washington, DC, 1996.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Charles Nicol <chaznicol@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Well, I 'm not necessarily claiming to be first to notice Haze and
>> Hazel, but years ago--almost certainly pre-1999--I delivered a paper at MLA
>> at a Nabokov session titled "Families and Anti-families." My paper was
>> titled "Hazel and Haze, L.," and compared scenes from Lolita and Pale Fire
>> that both had "father," mother and "daughter" shouting from
>> different rooms as they read and worked. I no longer have those old
>> programs with me, but maybe somebody else (preferably the session
>> organizer) can verify this.
>>
>> Thanks from Charles Nicol.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:07 PM, Jansy Mello <
>> jansy.nabokv-L@AETERN.US> wrote:
>>
>>
>> *Matt Roth*: *In a forthcoming article, I talk about the Hazel-Haze, L.
>> coincidence, but I was unable to track down who first wrote about it. Does
>> anyone have an earlier reference than the Rosenbaum article?*
>> *Jansy Mello*: In 1999 Ron Rosenbaum publicly vindicated his discovery,
>> if neither Boyd nor anyone else claimed it ("..* one detail I can't
>> believe someone else hasn't noticed, but one I'd be delighted to get credit
>> for noticing first: The ghost within the name "Hazel," the ghost of Lolita*.")
>> He must have taken pride in it, too, because a "pale ghost" is the first
>> thing that haunts our eyes in the title (and the link) to his article:
>> http://observer.com/1999/04/nabokovs-pale-ghost-a-scholar-retracts/#ixzz2uBC21CAj
>>
>>
>>
>> *C. Kunin*: *"I was going to say that Kinbote was probably looking on,
>> but it can't be ... he hasn't made the trip to America yet, so I guess at
>> this point neither is aware of the other. Right?"*
>> *Jansy Mello*: We know that Shade started to write "Pale Fire" in the
>> Summer under Kinbote's dedicated eavesdropping and this is why I don't get
>> you when you write that "at this point neither is aware of the other."
>> I surmise that Shade was then too absorbed in his poetic elaborations to
>> worry about his persistent neighbor during the process of finding himself
>> in a "crystal land" (he wasn't having one of his fits, either, another
>> instance of his splitting). You must be meaning Gradus, not Kinbote
>> himself (note to lines 1-4): "*The poem was begun at the dead center of
>> the year, a few minutes after midnight July 1, while I played chess with a
>> young Iranian enrolled in our summer school; and I do not doubt that our
>> poet would have understood his annotator's temptation to synchronize a
>> certain fateful fact, the departure from Zembla of the would-be regicide
>> Gradus, with that date. Actually, Gradus left Onhava on the Copenhagen
>> plane on July 5.**" *
>> Of course! Nice "incorporation"...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Este email está limpo de vírus e malwares porque a proteção do avast!
>> Antivírus <http://www.avast.com/> está ativa.
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