Nabokov's World: Volume 2: Reading Nabokov(Studies in Russia and East Europe)

Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading.

Table of Contents:
Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: Reading Nabokov; J.Grayson Nabokov: A Centennial Toast; B.Boyd V.V. Nabokov and V.D. Nabokov: His Father's Voice; M.Malikova Nabokov's Exegi Monumentum : Immortality in Quotation Marks (Nabokov, Pushkin and Mikhail Gershenzon); V.Proskurina Intertextuality and (Meta)poesis: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's 'Seven Poems': M.Meylac White (K)Nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories; D.E.Peterson Looking at Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art and the Ballets Russes; S.E.Sweeney Paintings, Governesses, and 'Publishing Scoundrels': Nabokov and Henry James; N.Cornwell Nabokov, Snobism, and Selfhood in Pnin; C.Kelly Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats; J.Burt-Foster, Jr Broken Dates: Proust, Nabokov and Modern Time; M.Wood 'Did She Have a Precursor?': Lolita and Edith Wharton's The Children; E.Pifer How Did They Ever Make a Painting of Lolita?; J.D.Quin Transformations of Memory: Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Merrill; R.Trousdale The Real Hound: The Real Knight; P.Meyer VN/GP: Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Work of Georges Perec; D.Bellos Select Bibliography Index

About the Author :
JANE GRAYSON is Lecturer in Russian language and literature at SSEES, University College London. Her publications include Nabokov Translated: A Comparison of Nabokov's Russian and English Prose, Nikolay Gogol: Text and Context (co-edited with Faith Wigzell,) Ideology in Russian Literature (co-edited with Richard Freeborn) and numerous articles on twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature. - ARNOLD MCMILLIN, Professor of Russian Literature at SSEES, University College London has written extensively on Belarusian and Russian language and literature. His latest monograph is Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 60s: Release and Renewal. - PRISCILLA MEYER is Professor of Russian at Wesleyan University and the author of Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' and other articles on Nabokov.

Review :
'Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers.' - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown