Having just returned from Brian Boyd's "Nabokov Upside Down"
conference, I just wanted to report that it was a positively
incandescent atmosphere of discovery. There were suggestive and
provocative papers on many subjects, including (to take a random
sampling) a new authorship theory for Pale Fire, completely new
thoughts on the notion of "authorial tyranny," Nabokov's low humor,
autoscopy, foodnotes, butterflies, prophecy, Playboy,Pushkin
and translation, and too much more to list here. The abstracts are for
now available at:
https://custom.cvent.com/F171CE82AA5645B8BA021387DB23D170/files/d0ef422e8c6642ce956c587060d284fd.pdf
However, a few of the papers may have changed somewhat since the
abstracts were written.
Hats off to Brian Boyd and and everyone who participated, attended, and
made the gathering such a success!
Stephen Blackwell
Co-editor, Nabokv-l