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the story was online in the NEW YORKER.It is it's own story and a weak one....would have been nice to mention theNabokov original prototype.
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From: Hyman, Eric <ehyman@UNCFSU.EDU>
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I have been reading the Nabokov-l exchange on LorrieMoore’s "Referential." I wonder about the ethics andlegality (copyright) about scanning and posting the whole story. Reasonable people can debate the merits of Moore’s story: I’ve readit twice and reread “Signs and Symbols.” Moore is obviouslyindebted to “Signs and Symbols,” but “Referential” ismuch more than a crude take-off; it is its own story. That prompts asuggestion: it might be worth an MLA panel, not probably on just these twostories but on the poetics of indebtedness, inspiration, homage, maybe“take-off,” in both directions: what Nabokov got from hispredecessors and what later writers get from him. APOLOGY and DISCLAIMER:I probably can’t chair such a session myself because MLA occurs the weekbefore our semester classes begin. I am interim department chair and hopeto be replaced by then, but attending MLA at all, much less presiding over asession, is problematic because of pre-semester meetings and administrativeduties. There are probably quite a few International Vladimir NabokovSociety members more qualified anyway.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hyman, Eric <ehyman@UNCFSU.EDU>
To: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Fri, Jun 1, 2012 1:28 pm
Subject: [NABOKV-L] Lorrie Moore "Referential"
I have been reading the Nabokov-l exchange on LorrieMoore’s "Referential." I wonder about the ethics andlegality (copyright) about scanning and posting the whole story. Reasonable people can debate the merits of Moore’s story: I’ve readit twice and reread “Signs and Symbols.” Moore is obviouslyindebted to “Signs and Symbols,” but “Referential” ismuch more than a crude take-off; it is its own story. That prompts asuggestion: it might be worth an MLA panel, not probably on just these twostories but on the poetics of indebtedness, inspiration, homage, maybe“take-off,” in both directions: what Nabokov got from hispredecessors and what later writers get from him. APOLOGY and DISCLAIMER:I probably can’t chair such a session myself because MLA occurs the weekbefore our semester classes begin. I am interim department chair and hopeto be replaced by then, but attending MLA at all, much less presiding over asession, is problematic because of pre-semester meetings and administrativeduties. There are probably quite a few International Vladimir NabokovSociety members more qualified anyway.
Eric Hyman
Professorof English
InterimChair
Departmentof English
Butler123
FayettevilleState University
1200Murchison Road
Fayetteville,NC 28301-4252
(910)672-1416
ehyman@uncfsu.edu
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