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Cambridge Companion to Nabokov

by Bud Parr

SCMZZZZZZZ.jpg” class=“floatimgleft” />Cambridge University Press will publish in June a new addition to their “Companions to Literature” series on Vladimir Nabokov. The Cambridge Companions, of which there are 237 volumes, are essentially scholarly material packaged for the general reader. I have read many of them and they generally give a detailed overview of the state of thinking on their subject. The introduction to this volume offers that the collection “does not attempt to be encyclopedic in scope or coverage. Nabokov and his artistic legacy have too many dimensions to receive comprehensive treatment in a volume such as this. Instead, a group of distinguished Nabokov scholars has been asked to provide the interested reader with some new critical pathways into Nabokov’s rich creative landscape. Readers with some familiarity with Nabokov’s work will encounter thought-provoking treatments of Nabokov’s art and its place in a variety of cultural contexts.”


CUP offers a pdf of the introductory chapter that summarizes each of the essays:


Pdf


Table of Contents


Chronology

Introduction: the many faces of Vladimir Nabokov – Julian W. Connolly


Part I. Contexts:


1. Strong opinions and nerve points: Nabokov’s life and art – Zoran Kuzmanovich

2. Nabokov as storyteller – Brian Boyd

3. Nabokov as a Russian writer – Alexander Dolinin

4. ‘By some sleight of land’: how Nabokov rewrote America – Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

5. Nabokov and modernism – John Burt Foster, Jr.


Part II. Works


6. Nabokov as poet – Barry Scherr

7. Nabokov’s short fiction – Priscilla Meyer

8. The major Russian novels – Julian W. Connolly

9. From Sirin to Nabokov: the transition to English – Neil Cornwell

10. Nabokov’s biographical impulse: art of writing lives – Galya Diment

11. The Lolita phenomenon from Paris to Tehran – Ellen Pifer

12. Nabokov’s late fiction – Michael Wood


Part III. Related Worlds:


13. Nabokov and cinema – Barbara Wyllie

14. Nabokov’s world view – Leona Toker


A guide to further reading.


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posted May 23, 2005

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