Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004659, Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:30:54 -0800

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Re: Call for Papers on ``Nabokov and Time``--ALA convention (fwd)
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney wrote:

All Nabokov scholars are invited to submit a proposal (in the form of a
250-word abstract) for the annual Nabokov session at the American
Literature Association convention in Long Beach, California, May 25-28,
2000.
> > NABOKOV AND TIME > >

Aspects of this topic might include:
Nabokov and nostalgia; Nabokov's attitude toward history; the philosophy
of time in Nabokov; the texture of time in Nabokov; death, temporality,
and Nabokov's sense of an ending; the chronology of Nabokov's plots;
Nabokov's narrative experiments with time; the relationship between memory
and narration in Nabokov's fiction. Other interpretations of this topic
are welcome!

> > DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2000 > >

SEND brief (250 words) abstract with title and contact information to:

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
508-756-7461 (home)

Submissions by email (ssweeney@holycross.edu) or fax (508-793-3030 before
4 pm 1/28/00, attention Sweeney/ English) are acceptable.