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In Collaboration with the Author": Some Traces of Self-Translation in Nabokov's Short Stories “与作者合作”：纳博科夫短篇小说中自我翻译的一些痕迹

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2023.a937384

Leona Toker, Maria Emeliyanova

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Lucette late in Ada 卢赛特在艾达晚些时候

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0010

Brian Boyd

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In Memoriam: Donald Barton Johnson (1933–2020) 纪念:唐纳德·巴顿·约翰逊(1933-2020)

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0004

Z. Kuzmanovich

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From the editor 来自编辑

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.2307/edgallpoerev.13.1.0003

Z. Kuzmanovich

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Lynchers at Heart: De-ciphering "Signs and Symbols" 私刑者的内心:解密“符号和符号”

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0009

E. Naiman

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Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives by Michael Rodgers (review) 《纳博科夫与尼采:问题与观点》作者:迈克尔·罗杰斯

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0011

Constantine Muravnik

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"A green lane in Paradise": Eschatology and Theurgy in Lolita “天堂的绿巷”:《洛丽塔》中的末世论与神学

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0000

E. Eklund

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Cincinnatus' Pharmacy: Invitation to a Beheading & Poststructuralist Graphocentrism 辛辛那图斯的药剂:斩首的邀请与后结构主义的文字中心主义

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0005

Brendan Nieubuurt

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"I Have Only Words to Play With!": Riddling Lolita's Logodaedaly “我只有文字可以玩!”谜语洛丽塔的标志

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0006

Jeremy Stewart

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Lolita the Butterfly. Nabokov's Private Aesthetics 蝴蝶洛丽塔。纳博科夫的私人美学

Nabokov Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1353/nab.2020.0007

Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts

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