Volume 9 (2015)

Table of Contents

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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

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Matthew Roth

THE COMPOSITION OF NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE

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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]

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ESSAY

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

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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)