Nabokov's World

VLADIMIR E. ALEXANDROV Professor of Russian Literature, Yale UniversitySTEPHEN H. BLACKWELL Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleBRIAN BOYD Lecturer in English, University of AucklandMAURICE COUTURIER Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Nice, FrancePAUL BENEDICT GRANT Graduate Student, University of CambridgeD. BARTON JOHNSON Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of California, Santa BarbaraZORAN KUZMANOVICH Lecturer, Davidson College and Editor of Nabokov StudiesCHARLES LOCK Professor of English Literature, University of CopenhagenCHARLES NICHOL Professor of English and Humanities, Indiana State UniversityOLGA SKONECHNAIA Commentator and Translator of Nabokov's worksLEONA TOKER Professor of English Literature, Hebrew University of JerusalemDIETER E. ZIMMER Journalist, Translator and Writer, HamburgZINOVY ZINIK Novelist, Critic and Broadcaster

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: The Shape of Nabokov's World; J.Grayson Prologue: The Otherworld; B.Boyd & D.Barton Johnson 'Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the Claims of the Real; Z.Kuzmanovich Mimicry in Nature and Art; D.Zimmer Nabokov and Tolstoi: Notes on Allusions and Parallels; V.Alexandrov Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld'; D.Barton Johnson Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade: Nabokov and the Spirits; P.Meyer Transparent Things and Opaque Words; C.Lock Nabokov, Mach and Monism; S.H.Blackwell Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity; L.Toker Nabokov's Last Laughs; P.B.Grant Martin, Darwin, Malory and Pushkin: The Anglo-Russian Culture of Glory; C.Nichol Writing and Erasure, or Nabokov's Other Texts; M.Couturier The Wandering Jew as a Metaphor for Memory in Nabokov's Poetry and Prose of the 1920s and 1930s; O.Skonechnaia The Double Exile of Vladimir Nabokov; Z.Zinik L'Envoi: Shakespeare; V.Nabokov , translation by D.Nabokov Select Bibliography Index

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