Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <3A0B044A.1B4A3D2F@gte.net> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:08:42 -0800 From: "D. Barton Johnson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nabokv-l@gte.net Subject: [Fwd: Boyd's 'Nabokov's Pale Fire'] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------28CD7440D2D15C51B1EC668D" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------28CD7440D2D15C51B1EC668D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit EDITOR's NOTE. Below, "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" responds to Tom Nguyen's query (at bottom) re responses to Boyd's Pale argument as advanced first in his article in NABOKV STUDIES #4 and then in his recent book. ---------------------------------------------- There is a response of sorts to the first part of my argument that first appeared in the article "Shade and Shape in 'Pale Fire'" in Nabokov Studies 4 (although to me it does not seem actually to respond to anything I say) by Kevin Ohi in the forthcoming issue (#5) of Nabokov Studies, with my response in return. (EDITOR'S INSERT: NABOKOV STUDIES #5 is to be mailed later this month.) There are also two pieces by Ron Rosenbaum in The New York Observer, April 26 and December 6 1999, which respond to an earlier stage and then to the book version of the argument and should be available from the New York Observer's website. Rosenbaum seems sentimentally attached to Mary McCarthy's rather hysterical version of Botkin = Kinbote as the deepest one can get into Pale Fire. I hope Tom Nguyen's message implies he has found more ammunition. Brian Boyd Tom Nguyen wrote: > I'm doing some work on Pale Fire and was wondering if there have been any > responses or counterarguments to Boyd's recent study, "The Magic of > Artistic Discovery". > > Please respond to me if you have any information. > > Thanks, > Tom Nguyen > > __________________________________________ > TOM NGUYEN PO Box 14795 > miles@stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94309 > Kairos 200 (650) 497-5527 --------------------------------- EDITOR's RESPONSE. Citations of review articles are welcome. The genesis of Boyd's book was an extended discussion on NABOKV-L a few years ago. The discussion can be retrieved from the NABOKV-L archives via a search command with the words Boyd and PALE FIRE. --------------28CD7440D2D15C51B1EC668D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from mailhost.auckland.ac.nz ([130.216.1.4]) by mtapop1.verizon.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001109063915.JSIH6074728.mtapop1.verizon.net@mailhost.auckland.ac.nz> for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:39:15 -0600 Received: from foaex01.auckland.ac.nz (foaex01.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.239.8]) by mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (8.9.2/8.9.2/8.9.2-ua) with ESMTP id TAA08080 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:39:13 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by foaex01.auckland.ac.nz with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:39:05 +1300 Message-ID: From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" Subject: RE: Boyd's 'Nabokov's Pale Fire' Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:39:03 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 There is a response of sorts to the first part of my argument to appear, in the article "Shade and Shape in 'Pale Fire'" in Nabokov Studies 4 (although to me it does not seem actually to respond to anything I say) by Kevin Ohi in the forthcoming issue (#5) of Nabokov Studies, with my response in return. There are also two pieces by Ron Rosenbaum in The New York Observer, April 26 and December 6 1999, which respond to an earlier stage and then to the book version of the argument and should be available from the New York Observer's website. Rosenbaum seems sentimentally attached to Mary McCarthy's rather hysterical version of Botkin = Kinbote as the deepest one can get into Pale Fire. I hope Tom Nguyen's message implies he has found more ammunition. Brian Boyd -----Original Message----- From: D. Barton Johnson To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU Sent: 11/8/2000 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Boyd's 'Nabokov's Pale Fire' Tom Nguyen wrote: > I'm doing some work on Pale Fire and was wondering if there have been any > responses or counterarguments to Boyd's recent study, "The Magic of > Artistic Discovery". > > Please respond to me if you have any information. > > Thanks, > Tom Nguyen > > __________________________________________ > TOM NGUYEN PO Box 14795 > miles@stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94309 > Kairos 200 (650) 497-5527 --------------------------------- EDITOR's RESPONSE. Citations of review articles are welcome. The genesis of Boyd's book was an extended discussion on NABOKV-L a few years ago. The discussion can be retrieved from the NABOKV-L archives via a search command with the words Boyd and PALE FIRE. --------------28CD7440D2D15C51B1EC668D--