Subject
Re: Pale Fire. Abraham,
Lyndy: "Nabokov's Alchemical Pale Fire." Dutch Quarterly Review
of Anglo-American Letters, 20
Lyndy: "Nabokov's Alchemical Pale Fire." Dutch Quarterly Review
of Anglo-American Letters, 20
From
Date
Body
Mary, It is so inspiring to see your ideas and originality on the subject.
I will read Lyndy Abrams article with relish. Best of luck and I look
forward to learning more.
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Mary Ross <maryross.illustrator@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I received a very nice and encouraging email from John Granger regarding
> my PF and alchemy thesis. He has alerted me to a paper published in 1995 by
> Lyndy Abraham ("a giant in literary alchemy") titled "Nabokov's Alchemical
> Pale Fire". My previous attempts to google "Pale Fire, alchemy" had not
> turned up anything, so I am thrilled to read this, even if dismayed a bit
> at not being original.
>
> Her insights are about 90% of what I have recognized with some very
> interesting things I am now very pleased to know. She quotes Carl Jung,
> but does not suggest that Nabokov based the alchemy allusions on his work
> in particular. I have a few insights that she does not mention, the most
> important being the crucial role of the myth of Atalanta and the
> Mercurial-Christ image of Balthazar. She also sees John Shade's poem as a
> failure and even bad poetry, without the "quick-silver" of Kinbote. I think
> it is great. She sees the alchemy thread as indicating artistic creation,
> which I firmly believe it is, but I think it also is meant as Jung saw it -
> as psychological and metaphysical and a path of liberation (Individuation
> in Jungian terms).
>
> I plan to continue looking into Jung's archetypes as tropes in PF. I
> believe they, more than, or along with alchemy, explain the relationships
> of the character and their motivations as purposeful parody. Ultimately the
> parody supports what I think is the meta-theme of transcendence (or failed
> transcendence).
>
> I suggest anyone interested read Ms Abraham's wonderfully written,
> scholarly but not too esoteric paper:
>
> Pale Fire - Penn State University Libraries
> https://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/bibpf.htm
> Pale Fire. Abraham, Lyndy: "Nabokov's Alchemical Pale Fire." Dutch
> Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters, 20 (2), pp. 102-119
>
> Also, as it turns out, her paper is #1 on the bibliography of Nabokov
> criticism, which I was unaware of! https://www.libraries.psu.edu/
> nabokov/bibpf.htm
>
> I am a Nabokov novice, a reader not a scholar. I post on the listserve in
> the hopes of getting feedback, whether positive or negative.
>
> (Thanks, John!)
>
> Search archive with Google:
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
>
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,
> shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
> Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
> Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
> Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.
> org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
> Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
> Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
> AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
> The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada:
> http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
> The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
> Dieter Zimmer Website: http://www.d-e-zimmer.de/index.htm
> Search the archive with L-Soft: https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-
> cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L
>
> Manage subscription options :http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-
> cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L
>
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
Dieter Zimmer Website: http://www.d-e-zimmer.de/index.htm
Search the archive with L-Soft: https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L
Manage subscription options :http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L
I will read Lyndy Abrams article with relish. Best of luck and I look
forward to learning more.
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Mary Ross <maryross.illustrator@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I received a very nice and encouraging email from John Granger regarding
> my PF and alchemy thesis. He has alerted me to a paper published in 1995 by
> Lyndy Abraham ("a giant in literary alchemy") titled "Nabokov's Alchemical
> Pale Fire". My previous attempts to google "Pale Fire, alchemy" had not
> turned up anything, so I am thrilled to read this, even if dismayed a bit
> at not being original.
>
> Her insights are about 90% of what I have recognized with some very
> interesting things I am now very pleased to know. She quotes Carl Jung,
> but does not suggest that Nabokov based the alchemy allusions on his work
> in particular. I have a few insights that she does not mention, the most
> important being the crucial role of the myth of Atalanta and the
> Mercurial-Christ image of Balthazar. She also sees John Shade's poem as a
> failure and even bad poetry, without the "quick-silver" of Kinbote. I think
> it is great. She sees the alchemy thread as indicating artistic creation,
> which I firmly believe it is, but I think it also is meant as Jung saw it -
> as psychological and metaphysical and a path of liberation (Individuation
> in Jungian terms).
>
> I plan to continue looking into Jung's archetypes as tropes in PF. I
> believe they, more than, or along with alchemy, explain the relationships
> of the character and their motivations as purposeful parody. Ultimately the
> parody supports what I think is the meta-theme of transcendence (or failed
> transcendence).
>
> I suggest anyone interested read Ms Abraham's wonderfully written,
> scholarly but not too esoteric paper:
>
> Pale Fire - Penn State University Libraries
> https://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/bibpf.htm
> Pale Fire. Abraham, Lyndy: "Nabokov's Alchemical Pale Fire." Dutch
> Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters, 20 (2), pp. 102-119
>
> Also, as it turns out, her paper is #1 on the bibliography of Nabokov
> criticism, which I was unaware of! https://www.libraries.psu.edu/
> nabokov/bibpf.htm
>
> I am a Nabokov novice, a reader not a scholar. I post on the listserve in
> the hopes of getting feedback, whether positive or negative.
>
> (Thanks, John!)
>
> Search archive with Google:
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
>
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,
> shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
> Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
> Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
> Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.
> org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
> Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
> Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
> AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
> The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada:
> http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
> The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
> Dieter Zimmer Website: http://www.d-e-zimmer.de/index.htm
> Search the archive with L-Soft: https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-
> cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L
>
> Manage subscription options :http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-
> cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L
>
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
Dieter Zimmer Website: http://www.d-e-zimmer.de/index.htm
Search the archive with L-Soft: https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L
Manage subscription options :http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L