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Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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Nabokov, Dostoevski, Proust: Despair
Although Nabokov criticism has long identified Despair with Dostoevski, critics have for the most part addressed Despair in terms of how it either attacks or validates Dostoevski and thus have understood Nabokov to be speaking primarily about ...
Timothy L. Parrish
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Genomic analysis of Plebejus Kluk (Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) clarifies taxonomy within Europe
The first genomic analysis for the genus Plebejus in Europe is presented, based on ddRAD sequencing data comprising all European Plebejus plus some Asian and North American taxa. Plebejus idas is recovered as paraphyletic, Plebejus corsicus as a subspecies of Plebejus argus and Plebejus villai as a population of Plebejus bellieri, totalling 4 species ...
Eric Toro‐Delgado +7 more
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Use of synanthropic roosts by bats in Europe and North America
Although bats often use buildings for roosting, the true proportion of their populations roosting in buildings is not known. Based on review of radio‐tracking studies, we found that 2× more species and 17× times higher proportion of populations use SRs in Europe than in North America, respectively.
Radek K. Lučan +3 more
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The care for opacity – On Tsai Ming-Liang’s conservative filmic gesture
A thin veneer of immediate reality is spread over natural and artificial matter, and whoever wishes to remain in the now, with the now, on the now, should please not break its tension film.
Erik Bordeleau
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El presente trabajo se detiene en las discrepancias que subyacen a la genealogía articulada entre Los emigrados de W. G. Sebald y Habla, memoria de Vladimir Nabokov. A partir de una comparación detallada del abordaje escritural se evidenciará el punto de
Mauro Espinosa
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On locational sensory individuals and spacetime
Perception not only registers property instances, but also connects with and attributes properties to individual entities—so‐called sensory individuals, or SIs. But what are SIs? The most‐discussed answers are: (i) SIs are ordinary material objects—cohesive, temporally persistent objects extended and bounded in space, and (ii) SIs are locations or ...
Jonathan Cohen
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Lolita, ou « l'ombre d'une branche russe ». Étude de l'auto-traduction
This article deals with the Russian translation of Lolita completed by Vladimir Nabokov in 1965, the one and only translation he made of the novels he had written in English.
Agnès Edel-Roy
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This article reveals some anagrammatic patterns in Vladimir Nabokov’s poem “La Bonne Lorraine” (1924). The original Russian text of the poem has several lines that include sound clusters referring to the name of the Maid of Orleans, the heroine of the ...
Semyon Leonenko
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CREATING IMAGERY BY V. NABOKOV
The author of the article describes some of the linguistic techniques of Vladimir Nabokov in the handwriting of L. Tolstoy and N. Gogol. These techniques subsequently were used in creating the imagery of the work by V. Nabokov.
E A Markova
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