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The Writing of Imagination: Analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Terra Incognita” and Invitation to a Beheading

Nabokov Studies
:Scholars have especially studied the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and cinema at the sociological, economic, and existential levels. However, the impact of cinema on Nabokov runs much deeper and is rooted in cinematic language.
Erica Camisa Morale
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Symmetry, Synchrony, and Tree Structures: Cognitive Approaches to Narrative Form and Pattern Recognition in Nabokov’s Pale Fire

Nabokov Studies
:This article examines Nabokov’s engagement with cognitive patterns and pattern recognition in Pale Fire, emphasizing their role in narrative construction and literary interpretation.
Juan Wu
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Nabokov and Freud: Solus Rex vs Oedipus Rex

American Imago
:The enigma of Nabokov's lifelong enmity with Freud perpetually attracts research attention. In this article, the author analyzes the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov's demonization of Freud by surveying previous explanations of this phenomenon ...
I. Kolmakov
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On Nabokov’s Ethnocultural Emblems

Scando-Slavica
This article is concerned with Nabokov’s use of nation names and their multilevel poetic functions. Nabokov did not miss an opportunity to underline his cosmopolitan, ‘overnational’ views; consequently, it is of particular importance when his heroes are ...
Zsuzsa Hetényi
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In Collaboration with the Author": Some Traces of Self-Translation in Nabokov's Short Stories

Nabokov Studies
:Vladimir Nabokov's pre-war Russian language short stories were translated into English, whether by his son Dmitri or by others, but, in the novelist's lifetime, always "in collaboration with the author." The extent of this collaboration sometimes ...
Leona Toker, Maria Emeliyanova
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Nabokov's Madeleine: Voluntary, Involuntary, and Photographic Memory in Speak, Memory

Nabokov Studies
:This article elucidates Vladimir Nabokov's engagement with Proustian concepts of memory by examining the illustrations that he added to Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1966).
Christine Fouirnaies
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The Hidden Nabokov

Nabokov Studies
:Not simple autobiography or mere camouflage, the relationship of Nabokov's fiction to his life shows his conscious process of misdirection. We can identify some autobiographical material that Nabokov hid, and why.
Priscilla Meyer
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Vladimir Nabokov and Italian Renaissance Painting

Nabokov Studies
:Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) is widely recognized and highly regarded as a writer of world renown. It is less known that in his childhood and early youth he entertained the idea of becoming a landscape painter.
Gavriel Shapiro
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The Absence of Justice in Nabokov's Pale Fire

Nabokov Studies, 2020
:Previous readings of Pale Fire overlook a crucial fact: its plot, structure, and narration depend upon the removal of a single character from the action.
S. Sweeney
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Nabokov’s God; God’s Nabokov

2016
This chapter argues that Nabokov’s works invoke not simply an otherworldly but a religious perspective. Schuman points out that Nabokov explicitly compares himself, as an artist who creates worlds, to God. More specifically, Schuman explores the overtly Christian imagery and content of two early stories, “The Word” and “Christmas.” The former revolves ...
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