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Fw: Nabokov and Borges's common reading
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From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
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> Hello again,
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> I should add that I did explore this argument very briefly in my essay
"'Subject-Cases' and 'Book-Cases': Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to
Auster" (which, despite the rather oblique title, also deals with Nabokov
and Borges), in a co-edited volume on "Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical
Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism" (U of Pennsylvania P, 1999).
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> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
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> >>> chtodel@cox.net 01/15/04 13:01 PM >>>
> EDNOTE. Anent Beth Sweeney's last paragraph--I think she is right in
> pointing to the probable overlap in childhood reading of VN & Borges.
> Jonathan Sisson's essay in the _Garland Companion to VN_ gives a good
> sketch of Nabokov's early English lit. context. A look at Borges' early
> English reading would be interesting as a point of comparison.
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From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15
lines) ------------------
> Hello again,
>
> I should add that I did explore this argument very briefly in my essay
"'Subject-Cases' and 'Book-Cases': Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to
Auster" (which, despite the rather oblique title, also deals with Nabokov
and Borges), in a co-edited volume on "Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical
Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism" (U of Pennsylvania P, 1999).
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
>
> >>> chtodel@cox.net 01/15/04 13:01 PM >>>
> EDNOTE. Anent Beth Sweeney's last paragraph--I think she is right in
> pointing to the probable overlap in childhood reading of VN & Borges.
> Jonathan Sisson's essay in the _Garland Companion to VN_ gives a good
> sketch of Nabokov's early English lit. context. A look at Borges' early
> English reading would be interesting as a point of comparison.
>
>