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Re: Erasmus Darwin & PF: the poem as a satire
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Jansy,
You are performing a considerable service for N/L in calling
attention to material in the Archive. I thank you and would encourage
recent subscribers to avail themselves of the Archive (via
GOOGLE--thanks to Beth and Steve) BEFORE re-asking questions.
Don Johnson
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Quoting jansymello <jansy@AETERN.US>:
> Two items:
>
> 1. Note about former posting on Slezak and "Laughter in the Dark":
> returning to the issue about "fiction and reality" and "metafiction"
>
> CK: Jansy told me how funny she found Nabokov's joke about missing
> the swan...But that's not Nabokov's joke, it is a famous anecdote
> from the career ... and VN's text: in a new good-natured manner
> launched into a funny story about some friend of his, an opera
> singer who once...
>
> In an informal exchange I spoke about VN's joke, but we can see that
> the joke has been recounted by VN ( he quoted an "an opera singer
> friend") , although it remained a fully fledged joke that remains
> part of the novel .
>
> MR: a long poem of four cantos in heroic couplets by Erasmus Darwin
> (1731-1802)called "Loves of the Plants: A Poem with Philosophical
> Notes." The poem references
> Zembla in one passage is filled with nymphs and crystal and several
> plants that appear in Pale Fire...
> JM: Now, more than ever before, I'm certain that "Pale Fire" was a
> satirical poem in its own right and not only the novel, thanks to
> Kinbote and his commentary.
>
> Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
> Search archive with Google:
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
>
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
> Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
> View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
You are performing a considerable service for N/L in calling
attention to material in the Archive. I thank you and would encourage
recent subscribers to avail themselves of the Archive (via
GOOGLE--thanks to Beth and Steve) BEFORE re-asking questions.
Don Johnson
-----------------------------
Quoting jansymello <jansy@AETERN.US>:
> Two items:
>
> 1. Note about former posting on Slezak and "Laughter in the Dark":
> returning to the issue about "fiction and reality" and "metafiction"
>
> CK: Jansy told me how funny she found Nabokov's joke about missing
> the swan...But that's not Nabokov's joke, it is a famous anecdote
> from the career ... and VN's text: in a new good-natured manner
> launched into a funny story about some friend of his, an opera
> singer who once...
>
> In an informal exchange I spoke about VN's joke, but we can see that
> the joke has been recounted by VN ( he quoted an "an opera singer
> friend") , although it remained a fully fledged joke that remains
> part of the novel .
>
> MR: a long poem of four cantos in heroic couplets by Erasmus Darwin
> (1731-1802)called "Loves of the Plants: A Poem with Philosophical
> Notes." The poem references
> Zembla in one passage is filled with nymphs and crystal and several
> plants that appear in Pale Fire...
> JM: Now, more than ever before, I'm certain that "Pale Fire" was a
> satirical poem in its own right and not only the novel, thanks to
> Kinbote and his commentary.
>
> Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
> Search archive with Google:
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
>
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
> Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
> View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm