Volume XV, 2021

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Table of Contents

​ARTICLES
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Erik Eklund
The Gist of Masks: Notes on Kinbote’s Christianity and Nabokov’s Authorial Kenosis

Ilya Vinitsky
Unearthing LOL: The Imaginary Adventures of a Slavicist in Leningrad [rus]
 
VLADIMIR NABOKOV: HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY
Special Guest Edited Issue 
 
Yannicke Chupin, Agnès Edel-Roy and Monica Manolescu
Introduction
 
Will Norman
Nabokov’s Wrong Turns
 
Isabelle Poulin
The map on the belly, or the animal side of History in Nabokov’s work
 
Léopold Reignier
History, geography and ‘reality’ in Nabokov’s invented worlds: the process of specialization
 
Dana Dragunoiu
Making History from the Future: Lolita and Proust’s Cahier 36
 
Alexia Gassin
Nabokov, a writer of Simmelian modernity?
 
Sophie Bernard
A Poetics of Mobility in The Gift
 
Adam Lieberman
Mapping the Hero’s Dreams: Imagination and Travel in Nabokov’s Glory
 
Agnès Edel-Roy
Eutopia in Ada, or the Aesthetic Reconfiguration of Twentieth-Century Political History: Nabokov’s souci d’eau against Vladimir Lenin’s Electricity
 
Sabine Metzger
Nabokov’s Sonic Geographies
 

WINNERS OF THE 2021 BEST STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION

Eric Sanchez 
On the Prosody of Nabokov’s Pale Fire 
 
Max Prokofiev 
“Terra Falsa”

Debora Di Stefano 
‘You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style’: An Analysis of Rhetorical Features in Nabokov’s Lolita

 
REVIEWS

Rachel Trousdale
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century.
Ed. Jenny Minton Quigley
 
Marianne Cotugno
Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era 
Ed. Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
 
Uday Kanungo
Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: Bookmarked
by Sven Birkerts
 
Erik Eklund
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense
by Robert Alter