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Re: VN, Lacan, & Ermarth (fwd)
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From: MEDELSTEIN@SCUACC.SCU.EDU
I'm grateful to Seth Young for reminding me that there is a short
section in Kristeva's STRANGERS TO OURSELVES about THE REAL LIFE
OF S. KNIGHT (pp. 33-38, if anyone is interested), since I'd read
and annotated it when the book first came out but had since forgotten
about it. Since her book is largely about exile, emigration, xenophobia,
it might be of general interest to Nabokovians anyway. She does
briefly discuss Nabokov himself and makes one brief comment about
a possible similarity between RLSK and LO (having to do with gender/women
and memory, etc.). Her analysis seems a blend of her own distinctive
linguistic and psychoanalytic approaches, with definite influences of
Lacan and, esp., Bakhtin. I suspect her discussion is often overlooked
in VN criticism. Both STRANGERS (and her central idea in it of
cosmopolitanism) and her later book NATIONS WITHOUT NATIONALISM
might be of interest to at least some Nabokovians. Marilyn Edelstein
, Dept. of English, Santa Clara U, Santa Clara California
medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu
I'm grateful to Seth Young for reminding me that there is a short
section in Kristeva's STRANGERS TO OURSELVES about THE REAL LIFE
OF S. KNIGHT (pp. 33-38, if anyone is interested), since I'd read
and annotated it when the book first came out but had since forgotten
about it. Since her book is largely about exile, emigration, xenophobia,
it might be of general interest to Nabokovians anyway. She does
briefly discuss Nabokov himself and makes one brief comment about
a possible similarity between RLSK and LO (having to do with gender/women
and memory, etc.). Her analysis seems a blend of her own distinctive
linguistic and psychoanalytic approaches, with definite influences of
Lacan and, esp., Bakhtin. I suspect her discussion is often overlooked
in VN criticism. Both STRANGERS (and her central idea in it of
cosmopolitanism) and her later book NATIONS WITHOUT NATIONALISM
might be of interest to at least some Nabokovians. Marilyn Edelstein
, Dept. of English, Santa Clara U, Santa Clara California
medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu