These
are slightly revised; please refer to this version, rather
than the initial one, when crafting proposals.
Guaranteed
session--Nabokov and History:
Nabokov’s life and work as framed by historical moments and
crises, including personal crises (migrations, assassination of
V.D. Nabokov, the Cold War, the affairs and near-affairs); the
traces of history in his art; Nabokov’s downplaying of the
importance of history (the Bolshevik Revolution was both “that
trite deus ex machina” and a series of “fabulous upheavals”);
his construction of himself as a historical figure in his own
right; the boundaries of/cross-fertilization among
autobiography, historiography, and literary scholarship. 300
word abstracts by 15 March 2014; Zoran Kuzmanovich (zokuzmanovich@davidson.edu).