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Nabokov's Cards: An AI Assisted Prewriting System to Support Bottom-Up Creative Writing

Creativity & Cognition
We introduce Nabokov’s Cards, a creativity support tool that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to support prewriting. Inspired by the writing process of Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov’s Cards enables prewriting ideation by providing users with an interface to
Dashiel Carrera, Zixin Zhao, Ashish Ajin Thomas, Daniel Wigdor   +3 more
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Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era

, 2021
Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate studentsin the twenty-first century.

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Beyond the Butterfly: Three Hundred Animal Species in Nabokov's Fiction

Nabokov Studies, 2021
:While there are multiple journal articles and four book-length studies that pin down the butterflies in Nabokov's fiction and life, the larger fauna of Nabokov's fiction is comparatively unexplored.
J. Warodell
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The Presence of Nabokov in Bitov's Fiction and Nonfiction: Bitov and Nabokov, Bitov on Nabokov, Nabokov in Bitov

Nabokov Studies, 2000
This essay explores the existence of an exclusive and complex literary relationship between Andrei Bitov and Vladimir Nabokov, whom Bitov considers to be his closest spiritual antecedent. This relationship originated at the very start of Bitov's career, and since then has found numerous reflections in Bitov's densely intertextual fictional and ...
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The reading practices of Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture
V. D. Nabokov, an outstanding theorist of criminal law, a public figure, actively used his personal library in his various cases, information about which is reflected in historiography, but his individual reading techniques have not yet been studied due ...
O. Ovchinnikova, Moreva
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Kissing Her Ellipses: Dreams and Narrative Texture in Nabokov's "Ultima Thule Theme"

Nabokov Studies, 2021
:Vladimir Nabokov's short stories "Ultima Thule" and "Solus Rex," written and published in Russian between 1939 and 1942 were translated into English by Nabokov in 1973, after he'd conducted dream experiments using a method outlined by John W.
J. Sears
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Lolita the Butterfly. Nabokov's Private Aesthetics

Nabokov Studies, 2021
:The paper is dedicated to parsing out several conceptual threads in Nabokov's Lolita, such as human passions, the butterfly hunter's reckless infatuation and the artistic creative freedom. These motifs tend to interact, but they cannot be brought into a
Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts
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The Barber of Kasbeam (Continued): Ethics and Affect in Nabokov’s Lolita

Nabokov Studies
:A particular mode of criticism—what can be referred to as “cerebral formalism”—has now dominated Nabokov studies for decades. Such criticism is often limited to identifying patterning, intertextuality, and wordplay. As a result, very little attention is
Kian Lee Powys
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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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