Vladimir Nabokov

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VN Bibliography: _Nabokov & his Fiction: New Perspectives_
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From: "Julian W. Connolly" <jwc4w@virginia.edu>

_Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives_ .Edited by Julian W. Connolly
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0521632838
xiv, 253 pp.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Nabokov at 100 – Julian W. Connolly
Part 1: Artistic Strategies and Themes

1. Setting his myriad faces in his text: Nabokov's authorial presence
revisited – Gavriel Shapiro

2. Vladimir Nabokov and the art of autobiography – Galya Diment

3. The near-tyranny of the author: _Pale Fire_ – Maurice Couturier

4. Jewish questions in Nabokov's art and life – Maxim D. Shrayer

5. "The dead are good mixers": Nabokov's versions of individualism – Leona
Toker


6. Nabokov's trinity (On the movement of Nabokov's themes) – Gennady
Barabtarlo


Part 2: Literary and Cultural Contexts

7. Nabokov's (re)visions of Dostoevsky – Julian W. Connolly

8. Her monster, his nymphet: Nabokov and Mary Shelley – Ellen Pifer

9. Vladimir Nabokov and Rupert Brooke – D. Barton Johnson

10. Clio laughs last: Nabokov's answer to historicism – Alexander Dolinin

11. Poshlust, culture criticism, Adorno, and Malraux – John Burt Foster, Jr.

Selected Bibliography
Index


Description:

To mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings
together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars
offering new perspectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays
cover a broad range of topics and approaches, from close readings of major
texts, including _Speak, Memory_ and _Pale Fire_, to penetrating
discussions of the significant relationship between Nabokov's personal
beliefs and experiences and his art. Several of the essays attempt to
uncover the artistic principles that underlie the author's literary
creations, while others seek to place Nabokov's work in a variety of
literary and cultural contexts. Among these essays are a probing
examination of a recently published and little known work, _The Tragedy of
Mr. Morn_, as well as a fresh perspective on the writer's most famous
novel, _Lolita_. The volume as a whole offers valuable insight into the
future direction of Nabokov scholarship.