Volume 9 (2015)

Table of Contents


FORUM

APPROACHES TO TEACHING NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE

Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan University)
Will Norman (University of Kent)
Dale E. Peterson (Amherst College)
Rachel Trousdale (Northeastern University)
Yuri Leving, NOJ, Moderator


Matthew Roth
THE COMPOSITION OF NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE


ARTICLES

Kathryn James
CHECKING IN/CHECKING OUT: HUMBERT’S SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY IN THE UBIQUITOUS AMERICAN MOTEL
 
Barbara Wyllie 
“MY AGE OF INNOCENCE GIRL” – HUMBERT, CHAPLIN, LITA AND LO

Savely Senderovich and Yelena Shvarts
NABOKOV’S SHORT STORY “THE POTATO ELF”: THE MOTIF OF BAMBOOZLE [Rus]

Tom Heisler 
EPIC MIRAGE, EPIC FEROCITY IN NABOKOV’S PNIN

Chelsea Baumgarten
“THE FREE WORLD OF TIMELESSNESS”: REIMAGINING TIME IN NABOKOV’S PNIN

Sabine Metzger 
“THE MYSTERIES OF MIMICRY” AND NATURE AS SUPREME ART: NABOKOV’S INTANGIBLE NATURE

Roy Groen
CIRCLING AROUND HEGEL: PENS AND PROBLEMS IN NABOKOV’S BEND SINISTER 

Alexander Dolinin
THE FAULTS AND FAILURES OF DILETTANTISM: ON THE NEW PUBLICATIONS OF NABOKOV’S DRAFTS [Rus]


ESSAY

Maxim D. Shrayer
CRIMEAN STYLE – 2013
A sentimental journey to the peninsula of Nabokov’s youth


BOOK REVIEWS 
 
Samuel Schuman
Nabokov’s Shakespeare
(STEPHEN F. WOLFE)

Maurice Couturier
Nabokov’s Eros and the Poetics of Desire 
(JEFF HALPERIN)

Jacqueline Hamrit 
Authorship in Nabokov’s Prefaces 
(LYNDSAY MILLER)

Lolita – The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design, 
Ed. by John Bertram and Yuri Leving
(ILIA ROGATCHEVSKI)

Andrew Caulton
The Absolute Solution: Nabokov’s Response to Tyranny, 1938
(UDITH DEMATAGODA)