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Nabokov's Dystopia: Bend Sinister, America and Mass Culture [PDF]
, 2009 “I am as American as April in Arizona,” Nabokov claimed in a 1966 interview. Although he repeatedly emphasized his American citizenship and the affection he held for his adopted nation, my argument is that his 1947 novel, Bend Sinister, offers us an ...
Anderson's, Larmour, WILL NORMAN
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Seeing the green cucumber: Reflections on variation theory and teaching plant identification
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 258-268, May 2022., 2022 Overcoming ‘plant blindness’ is a critical goal for society and especially for education. In this article, we suggest variation theory can be a useful approach to plant identification training and evaluation in higher education contexts. We discuss an example from Swedish higher education in which we reflect on our teaching.
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A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
, 2015 In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century ...
Rodgers, Michael
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The Return of ‘Our’ Nabokov [PDF]
Index on Censorship, 1987 More and more of Vladimir Nabokov's works are being published officially in the Soviet Union—but not without resistance from the old guard.
D. Barton Johnson, S. Golburgh Johnson
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Kaleidoscopic Nabokov. The State of Nabokov Research in France
Transatlantica, 2009 Conference Overview: The “crazy quilt of Nabokov studies in France” Strasbourg University, the conference’s main venue There are conferences meant to gather people around an idea or theme, and there are conferences meant above all to bring people from a given field together so as to offer a much-needed cartography of that field and to consolidate the ...
Lara Delage-Toriel, Monica Manolescu
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, 2022 Critical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 138-154, December 2022.
David Nowell Smith
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Citazione e autotraduzione. Alcuni versi in un romanzo di Vladimir Nabokov [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2020 In his Preface to the American edition of "Dar", Vladimir Nabokov has maintained that the real heroine of his novel is Russian literature. As is well known, the text is fraught with quotations from other literary works.
Maria Emeliyanova
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Moral Instruction by Bad Example: The First Latin Translations of Theophrastus’ Characters☆
, 2022 Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 5, Page 668-685, November 2022.
Katie Ebner‐Landy
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The “Kirghiz Fairy Tale” in The Gift: Nabokov, Folklore, and Orientalism [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 In the second chapter of The Gift, Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev recalls a “Kirghiz fairy tale” about a human eye that wants “to encompass everything in the world.” The plot of the story goes back to a Talmudic parable about Alexander the ...
Alexander A. Panchenko
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Rhetorical Caricature: An Educational Reading of Nabokov's Treatment of Freud
Phenomenology & Practice, 2011 Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-American novelist and lepidopterist, was neither a didactician nor a moralist. His images, which he painted with his words, are deceptive and contradictory. But the strangest thing happens.
Herner Saeverot
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