Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0004
Z. Kuzmanovich
{"title":"In Memoriam: Donald Barton Johnson (1933–2020)","authors":"Z. Kuzmanovich","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p>","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123036024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0009
E. Naiman
{"title":"Lynchers at Heart: De-ciphering \"Signs and Symbols\"","authors":"E. Naiman","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"Lynchers at Heart: De-ciphering 'Signs and Symbols,\" offers a new reading of Nabokov's celebrated story. First, it locates a hostile narrative presence, a homodiegetic (or even paradiegetic) narrator within the story, who works to portray the protagonists' situation as bleakly as possible. Second, it views the story as an attack by numbers on both art and the heart. The status of numbers in particular, and of de-coding strategies in general, is fraught in Nabokov's work, as the author himself seems to have both succumbed to and resisted interpretive 'calculation' in composing his fiction. \"Signs and Systems,\" however should be read as the work that provides his most compelling defense of \"incalculability.\"","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"23 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129609031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0011
Constantine Muravnik
{"title":"Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives by Michael Rodgers (review)","authors":"Constantine Muravnik","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128366428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0000
E. Eklund
{"title":"\"A green lane in Paradise\": Eschatology and Theurgy in Lolita","authors":"E. Eklund","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing upon a wealth of underdeveloped and theologically significant trajectories identified by scholars and gestured toward by Nabokov himself, this article addresses the central problem Humbert Humbert's post-mortem fate poses a theological reading of Lolita, namely, Humbert's allowance by his author to wander Paradise once a year for having repented and attained to genuine love for Dolores Haze. Against exclusively metafictional interpretations which problematically bracket ethics and transcendence from aesthetics, a theological reading of Lolita must begin by considering the eschatological orientation of Nabokov's poetics, which are founded upon an analogy between metafiction and metaphysics. To this end, Nabokov's relationship with Russian religious philosopher Nicolas Berdyaev funds a consideration of their shared belief in the theurgic power of art, which is deployed to map a way for coming to terms with the complex moral and theological predicament posed by Lolita. According to this model, Humbert does find redemption at the end of his journey even as this redemption neither trivializes nor justifies his evil conduct toward Dolores.","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129721516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0005
Brendan Nieubuurt
{"title":"Cincinnatus' Pharmacy: Invitation to a Beheading & Poststructuralist Graphocentrism","authors":"Brendan Nieubuurt","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Nabokov called his 1935 story of existential imprisonment, Invitation to a Beheading, his most \"poetical\" work of fiction. This article unpacks that statement, with its subtle conflation of the poetic and the political—two semantic registers Nabokov deemed utterly incompatible. Indeed, Invitation is about that incompatibility, this study contends. More specifically, the article locates a concrete point of conflict in the contrasting ways oral and written language operate in the novel. In doing so, it inserts Nabokov into an age-old debate, initiated by Plato, over the two communicative modes' relationships to truth and their ability to articulate the authentic self. Speech has traditionally been championed in this debate as an unmediated utterance. Invitation, however, makes a vivid and visceral claim for the expressive capacity of the written word. Conventional in form, superficial in content, and meant for swift social exchange, speech is, in Invitation's nightmare world, the medium of Cincinnatus' persecutors. Unintelligible to the homogenous crowd, Cincinnatus only finds his \"voice\" on the pages of the diary he drafts with pencil and paper. The language of that diary is primordial and decidedly poetic. His text also has a peculiar texture, as Cincinnatus becomes (to quote Montaigne) the very substance of his book. Evincing these lingual values, Nabokov lands in the company of later poststructruralist thinkers, whose theories likewise problematize speech to instead champion a graphocentric mode of embodied, poetic self writing as the height of individual expression. First tracing a shared theoretical genealogy in Henri Bergson's philosophy, this paper thus ultimately reads the novel as a creative anticipation of the future intertexts, especially those of Jacques Derrida. It was the deconstructionist provocateur who most explicitly upended Plato and asserted the primacy and power of the written utterance. Derrida did so, moreover, in imagery and metaphors that resonate in sometimes uncanny harmony with Invitation's visual and verbal rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116144159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0006
Jeremy Stewart
{"title":"\"I Have Only Words to Play With!\": Riddling Lolita's Logodaedaly","authors":"Jeremy Stewart","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Due to cryptic comments Nabokov made over the years in his published interviews and other forums, critics have long suspected that Lolita conceals a riddle. Given that there are several other such riddles or puzzles in Nabokov's oeuvre, it is reasonable to think that there is one in Lolita as well. This, however, raises the question of the relationship between authorial intention and the function of criticism; what criteria should we use to find the answer to Nabokov's riddle, and what might it contribute to a literary reading of Lolita in any case? Surveying published attempts to solve the riddle, it is clear that any solution that would betray Nabokov's own principles and theory of art should be treated with great caution. Riddles are an example of a case in which appeal to known facts about an author may be necessary (similar to the case of irony in Denis Dutton's analysis). By demonstrating how key elements in Nabokov's aesthetics might apply to the riddle, we can begin to limit possible solutions while incorporating both the search and the eventual solution into a reading that is properly literary-critical.","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132867159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0007
Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts
{"title":"Lolita the Butterfly. Nabokov's Private Aesthetics","authors":"Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper is dedicated to parsing out several conceptual threads in Nabokov's Lolita, such as human passions, the butterfly hunter's reckless infatuation and the artistic creative freedom. These motifs tend to interact, but they cannot be brought into a ship-shape equation or even seamlessly aligned; they shed a lateral light on each other but are not to be equated; they diverge and at times converge, crisscross, overlap and jointly reveal the unique pattern concealed in the narrative fabric of Nabokov's world. They mutually comprise not so much a conception but rather a hieroglyph whose meaning is untranslatable into any neat formula. This hieroglyph is of unique kind: it belongs to the interrogative modality. This hieroglyph has a silhouette of BUTTERFLY.","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121056068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0001
J. Warodell
{"title":"Beyond the Butterfly: Three Hundred Animal Species in Nabokov's Fiction","authors":"J. Warodell","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While there are multiple journal articles and four book-length studies that pin down the butterflies in Nabokov's fiction and life, the larger fauna of Nabokov's fiction is comparatively unexplored. As I show in this note, in addition to Nabokov's more than 200 moths and butterflies, there are more than 300 animal species mentioned in his extant prose fiction. To inspire further research, the article lists Nabokov's 300 animal species in seven taxonomic classes and references the novels and novellas in which they appear. The list itself is an argument for the specificity and variety of Nabokov's writing, a testament to his tendency to meticulously label and categorize phenomena, and evidence of Nabokov's expansive interest in non-human animals. The list is also an argument for reading across Nabokov's works to identify characteristics that are otherwise difficult to see from focusing on a single work. While all of Nabokov's fictions have a range of animal species, the extraordinary range and biodiversity of Nabokov's fauna is only apparent from a macroscopic perspective. I suggest that no other Anglophone twentieth-century author wrote as expansively on animals as Nabokov.","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126784350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabokov StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0008
J. Sears
{"title":"Kissing Her Ellipses: Dreams and Narrative Texture in Nabokov's \"Ultima Thule Theme\"","authors":"J. Sears","doi":"10.1353/nab.2020.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2020.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Vladimir Nabokov's short stories \"Ultima Thule\" and \"Solus Rex,\" written and published in Russian between 1939 and 1942 were translated into English by Nabokov in 1973, after he'd conducted dream experiments using a method outlined by John W. Dunne's text, Experiment with Time. This paper explores the role and language of dreams in \"Ultima Thule\" and \"Solus Rex,\" and how dream language and imagery contribute to the stylistic evolution of what D. Barton Johnson identified as Nabokov's \"Ultima Thule theme\" in the novels Bend Sinister and Pale Fire. The paper also considers classical and literary sources such as Edgar Allan Poe in the two stories and stylistic choices used to create the dreamlike texture of the prose, including repeated use of second-person narrative.","PeriodicalId":110136,"journal":{"name":"Nabokov Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129465870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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