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EDNOTE. Correction. Jamie Olson's essay on three VN novels was done not at
UM but at The College of Saint Scholastica, in Duluth, Minnesota where Prof.
Zelman teaches. Mr Olson is now in the English Grad Program at U. Michigan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie L. Olson" <olsonjl@umich.edu>
>
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> It turns out that I was mistaken, there are indeed citations from _The
Real
> Life of Sebastian Knight_ in the 2nd edition of the OED (1989). There
are,
> however, no citations from _Mary_, _The Eye_, _Laughter in the Dark_,
> _Despair_, or _Transparent Things_. All other novels are represented, as
> well as both _Conclusive Evidence_ and _Speak, Memory_.
>
> It is also worth noting that sometimes, but not always, an Englished
> edition of one of VN's novels is listed by translator [e.g. "D. Nabokov
tr.
> _Nabokov's Glory_ (1972)"], or by translator and author [e.g. "Nabokov &
> Scammell tr. _Nabokov's Defence_"], while other times it is merely listed
> by author. This is most apparent with _The Defense_, where in most cases
> only Nabokov's name is given, while in others Scammell's is given as well.
>
> In my earlier e-mail, I may have been mistaken in saying that citations
> from periodicals were necessarily short stories. The OED editors give no
> mention of the title of the piece from which they take their
> quotation. They merely give the periodical title, date, and issue
> number. The cited sentences, then, might just as well have been extracted
> from reviews, interviews, etc., although their content often indicates
that
> they derive from fiction.
>
> The OED's "New Edition," besides citing the novels, stories, and magazine
> publications that the 2nd edition cites, also cites from VN's letters,
from
> _The Enchanter_, and from the translation of _Eugene Onegin_. There is
> still the problem of not fully identifying quotations from periodicals.
In
> general, it appears that there will be a much larger quantity of citations
> in the new edition.
>
> From what I've been able to ascertain, there are no quotations from any
of
> VN's poems or plays in either edition.
>
> Jamie L. Olson
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
>
UM but at The College of Saint Scholastica, in Duluth, Minnesota where Prof.
Zelman teaches. Mr Olson is now in the English Grad Program at U. Michigan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie L. Olson" <olsonjl@umich.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (34
lines) ------------------
> It turns out that I was mistaken, there are indeed citations from _The
Real
> Life of Sebastian Knight_ in the 2nd edition of the OED (1989). There
are,
> however, no citations from _Mary_, _The Eye_, _Laughter in the Dark_,
> _Despair_, or _Transparent Things_. All other novels are represented, as
> well as both _Conclusive Evidence_ and _Speak, Memory_.
>
> It is also worth noting that sometimes, but not always, an Englished
> edition of one of VN's novels is listed by translator [e.g. "D. Nabokov
tr.
> _Nabokov's Glory_ (1972)"], or by translator and author [e.g. "Nabokov &
> Scammell tr. _Nabokov's Defence_"], while other times it is merely listed
> by author. This is most apparent with _The Defense_, where in most cases
> only Nabokov's name is given, while in others Scammell's is given as well.
>
> In my earlier e-mail, I may have been mistaken in saying that citations
> from periodicals were necessarily short stories. The OED editors give no
> mention of the title of the piece from which they take their
> quotation. They merely give the periodical title, date, and issue
> number. The cited sentences, then, might just as well have been extracted
> from reviews, interviews, etc., although their content often indicates
that
> they derive from fiction.
>
> The OED's "New Edition," besides citing the novels, stories, and magazine
> publications that the 2nd edition cites, also cites from VN's letters,
from
> _The Enchanter_, and from the translation of _Eugene Onegin_. There is
> still the problem of not fully identifying quotations from periodicals.
In
> general, it appears that there will be a much larger quantity of citations
> in the new edition.
>
> From what I've been able to ascertain, there are no quotations from any
of
> VN's poems or plays in either edition.
>
> Jamie L. Olson
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
>