Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.
Tabella dei contenuti
Editor’s Introduction: Nabokov on the Heights (and in Boston)
Maxim D. Shrayer
Nabokov in Boston: A Photo Essay
Matthew Lyberg
Angst and Asymptote: The Success Motif in Nabokov’s Fiction
Eric Weiskott
Unlimited Time: Visual Art and Temporality in Vladimir Nabokov’s “La Veneziana” and “The Visit to the Museum”
Megumi De Mond
Marriage and Its Discontents: Infidelity and Unhappiness in Vladimir Nabokov’s Life and Art
Ciara Spencer
Joyce’s L. Bloom to Nabokov’s Cincinnatus C.: The Influence of Joyce’s Ulysses on Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading
Nina Khaghany
“That Skip-Space Piece”: Positioning the Knight in Nabokov’s Poetics
Nick Adler
Sharing Other Worlds: Companionship and Coauthorship in The Gift and Glory
Fiona Steacy
Other (Dis)enchanted Motels: Nabokov’s Chronicles of Suburban America
Jared Hackworth
Questions of Style and Technique: Death and Immortality in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov
Katie Pelkey
Nabokov, the Poetics of Religious Conversion, and the Post-Shoah Reckoning
Maxim D. Shrayer
“She stands before me as a living child”: Aestheticism, Sentimentality, and Desire in Lolita
Kevin Ohi
Vladimir Nabokov and the Fruits of Fiction
Brendan Mc Court
Negotiating Nabokov within America’s Political and Social Context
Samuel Peterson
Acknowledgments
Index of Names and Places
Contributors
Circa l’autore
Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish studies program. Shrayer is the author and editor of over thirty books of nonfiction, biography, fiction, poetry, and translations, most recently the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the collection of poetry Conductor from Zion Square. Shrayer has published four books about Vladimir Nabokov and regularly teaches Nabokov seminars at Boston College. His works have been translated into thirteen languages. For more information, visit www.shrayer.com
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