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Re: VN on Melville? (fwd)
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From: JR <tract@voicenet.com>
At 10:13 AM 3/1/97 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Brian Walter <bwalter@dobson.ozarks.edu>
>
>Another reference that has not been mentioned so far here is the one that
>provided the germ of my own paper on anatomy and narrative strategy in
>MOBY-DICK and LOLITA, namely Nabokov's dismissal of W. W. Rowe's 1971
>book, NABOKOV'S DECEPTIVE WORLD: "One may wonder if it was worth Mr.
>Rowe's time to exhibit erotic bits picked out of LOLITA and ADA -- a
>process rather like looking for allusions to aquatic mammals in
>MOBY-DICK." While hardly intended as a comprehensive critical statement
>(as my paper acknowledges), Nabokov's one-liner does, when pushed, unfold
>into a number of curious and fascinating structural affinities in at least
>the case of MOBY-DICK and LOLITA (or so my paper argues, at any rate). At
>some point, I still hope and plan to submit it (it was originally
>presented at a faculty colloquium) for publication.
>
>BW
>Brian Walter, Assistant Professor
>HFA-English
>University of the Ozarks
>bwalter@dobson.ozarks.edu
>
There is this reference in LOLITA as well:
"One group, jointly with the Canadians, established a weather
station on Pierre Point in Melville Sound."
-- LOLITA, Part One, Chapter Nine [p. 33 of the Berkley paperback]
Joshua Roberts
tract@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~tract
At 10:13 AM 3/1/97 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Brian Walter <bwalter@dobson.ozarks.edu>
>
>Another reference that has not been mentioned so far here is the one that
>provided the germ of my own paper on anatomy and narrative strategy in
>MOBY-DICK and LOLITA, namely Nabokov's dismissal of W. W. Rowe's 1971
>book, NABOKOV'S DECEPTIVE WORLD: "One may wonder if it was worth Mr.
>Rowe's time to exhibit erotic bits picked out of LOLITA and ADA -- a
>process rather like looking for allusions to aquatic mammals in
>MOBY-DICK." While hardly intended as a comprehensive critical statement
>(as my paper acknowledges), Nabokov's one-liner does, when pushed, unfold
>into a number of curious and fascinating structural affinities in at least
>the case of MOBY-DICK and LOLITA (or so my paper argues, at any rate). At
>some point, I still hope and plan to submit it (it was originally
>presented at a faculty colloquium) for publication.
>
>BW
>Brian Walter, Assistant Professor
>HFA-English
>University of the Ozarks
>bwalter@dobson.ozarks.edu
>
There is this reference in LOLITA as well:
"One group, jointly with the Canadians, established a weather
station on Pierre Point in Melville Sound."
-- LOLITA, Part One, Chapter Nine [p. 33 of the Berkley paperback]
Joshua Roberts
tract@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~tract