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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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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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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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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.
G. Shapiro
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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.
P. Meyer
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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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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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Parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita in Umberto Eco’s ‘Granita’

, 2020
Parody is regarded as a ‘beside-or-against’ song. Based on the theories of parody and intertextuality, this paper analyses the parodic means adopted in Umberto Eco’s short story ‘Granita,’ which is meant to be a parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.
Baole Cheng, Junwu Tian
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Butterflies in the Chthulucene: Reading Nabokov Geologically

, 2020
This article asks the question, what does it mean to read Nabokov’s butterflies on the scale of the Anthropocene? In the first part, we establish what it means to consider literature more broadly in such terms according to its material and conceptual ...
A. Brookes
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Nabokov, Grief, and Repetition

Nabokov Studies, 2020
:I examine "Gods," one of Nabokov's "bottom of the barrel" stories, as a previously unnoticed but telling finger exercise for "An Evening on a Vacant Lot" and, less obviously, the final section of Chapter One and much of Chapter Nine of Speak, Memory ...
Z. Kuzmanovich
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