Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001834, Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:18:46 -0800

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Re: VN, Lacan, & Ermarth (fwd)
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>From: Dustin Coppock Pascoe <dcpasc0@pop.uky.edu>
>My apologies for not taking note of M. Edelstein's question
>earlier; to make up for it, here's the Ermarth citation, and maybe no >one
will have to go >digging through dusty old piles of journals:
>
>"Conspicuous Construction: or, Kristeva, Nabokov, and the anti-Realist
>Critique." _Novel_ 21 (1988): 330-339.
>
>I do not know if this essay is included in her recent book.

Yes, this essay represents Section One of Part Three of Ermarth's
_Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational
Time_. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

For what it's worth, I find her analyses of Robbe-Grillet, Cortazar,
and VN quite stimulating, although, with regard to the earlier query,
her chapter deals primarily with Kristeva's and Derrida's views of language,
and not with Lacan or any other pyschoanalytic reading of VN.


Cary Henson, ABD
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Indiana University
Lecturer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

cphenson@indiana.edu
http://www.execpc.com/~cphenson/