Below is the translated Table of Contents of the new collection of articles on Nabokov, edited by Yuri Leving & E. Soshkin. NB The volume is in Russian

 

EMPIRE N

 

Nabokov and Heirs

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

Yuri Leving, Evgeny Soshkin. Nabokov on a Securities Market

 

 

I. Sociology of success / INTENTIONS / literary behavior

 

Maria Malikova (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg). The Gift and Success of Vladimir Nabokov

 

Boris Maslov (University of California, Berkeley). Dilettantism as a Historical-Cultural Phenomenon (Notes toward an Aesthetic Ideology of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift)

 

Stephen Blackwell (University of Tennessee). Nabokov the Publisher

 

Irina Borisova (St. Petersburg). Nabokov’s Ultima Thule, or “The details of his business—especially those connected with the handling of old somber pictures…” 

 

II. Industry / RECEPTIONS / mass culture

 

Yuri Leving (The George Washington University). Plaster, Marble, Canon: The Vindication of Nabokov

 

Suellen Stringer-Hye (Vanderbilt University). Vladimir Nabokov and American Popular Culture

 

Ekaterina Vassileva-Ostrovsky (Cologne University). Lolita’s Mythology: Nabokov’s Heroine in Contemporary Art and Mass Culture

 

Iuichi Isahaya (University Doshisha, Kyoto). Nabokov and Nabokov Studies: The Nineties

 

Ekaterina Rogatchevsky (British Library, London). Virtual Nabokov (In Internet and Around)

 

Viacheslav Desyatov (Altai State University). Russian Postmodernism: Half a Century with Nabokov

 

Yuri Leving (The George Washington University). “Nabokov-7”: Russian Postmodernism in Search of National Identity

 

Oleg Lekmanov (Moscow State University). Nabokov in Modern Russia: The History of Assimilation

 

 

III. Nabokov the reader / REFLECTIONS / Nabokov the spectator

 

Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shwartz (Cornell University). The Juice of Three Oranges: Nabokov and St. Petersburg Theatrical Avant-Garde

 

Lada Panova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Vladimir Sirin and Russian Egypt

 

Alexander Dolinin (University of Wisconsin-Madison / St. Petersburg). On a Certain Parody by Nabokov

 

Nadezhda Grigoreva (Konstanz / Moscow). The Avant-Garde in Despair

 

Donald Barton Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara). Forbidden Masterpieces in Nabokov’s Ada

 

Rashit Yangirov (Moscow). “The Sense of Film”: Notes on the Cinematic Context in the Literature of the Russian Emigration in the 1920-1930s

 

 

IV. Challenge to a reader / CODES / Contact by return 

 

Alexander Zholkovsky (University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Prank? Joke? Problem?

 

Feodor Dvyniatin (St. Petersburg). Nabokov, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Mimesis

 

Masha Levina-Parker (Sorbonne, Paris). Repetition. Répétition. Rehearsal? On a Certain Narrative Strategy in Nabokov’s and Bely’s Prose

 

Evgeny Soshkin (Jerusalem). Hitchcock’s Double. About Nabokov’s Detective Strategies

 

Alexander Dolinin (University of Wisconsin-Madison / St. Petersburg). Signs and Symbols in Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols”