Nabokov upside down / edited by Brian Boyd and Marijeta Bozovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyd, Brian, 1952- editor.

Bozovic, Marijeta, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Nabokov Upside Down brings together essays that explicitly diverge from conventional topics and points of reference when interpreting a writer whose influence on contemporary literature is unrivaled. Scholars from around the world here read Nabokov in terms of bodies rather than minds, belly laughs rather than erudite wit, servants rather than master artists, and Asian rather than Western perspectives. The first part of the volume is dedicated to surveys of Nabokov's oeuvre that transform some long-held assumptions concerning the nature of and significance of his work. Often thought of as among the most cerebral of artists, Nabokov comes across in these essays as profoundly aware of the physical world, as evidenced by his masterly representation of physical movement, his bawdy humor, and his attention to gustatory pleasure, among other aspects of his writing. The volume's second half focuses on individual works or phases in Nabokov's career, noting connections among them as well as to other fields of inquiry beyond literature. Engaged in conversation with each other and, in his editorial comments, with Brian Boyd, the essays in this volume show Nabokov scholarship continuing to renew itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Brian Boyd

Reflections on (and of) trees in Nabokov / Stephen H. Blackwell

Backward, contrariwise, downside up : thinking in different directions in Nabokov / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Belly and brain, mind and matter : an upside-down look at Nabokov's humor / Paul Benedict Grant

Some foodnotes to Nabokov's works / Lara Delage-Toriel

"I speak like a child" : orality in Nabokov / Monica Manolescu

Doubled vision : autoscopic phenomena in Nabokov's fiction / Naomi Olson

Restoration or regression? The lure of the past in Nabokov's fiction / Julian W. Connolly

Masters and servants : upstairs and downstairs in Nabokov / Galya Diment

On pity and courtesy in Nabokov's ethics / Dana Dragunoiu

Nabokov and Hearn : where the transatlantic imagination meets the transpacific imagination / Shun'ichiro Akikusa

"And if my private universe scans right . . . " : the semantics of meter in Nabokov's poetry- and worldview / Stanislav Shvabrin

In search of the real poet : Nabokov's Pushkin essay revisited / David Rampton

Nabokov for those who hate him : the curious case of Pnin / Robert Alter

"My poet's fiery orb" : "Pale fire" and its creative context / R. S. Gwynn

From Onegin to Ada : Nabokov and the transnational imperative / Marijeta Bozovic

Turning the myth upside down : from Humbert and Lo to Hubert and Flo, or, Reading the particulars / Yannicke Chupin

Afterword / Brian Boyd.

Notes:

Papers from a January 2012 conference held at the University of Auckland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810134515

0810134519

9780810134522

0810134527

OCLC:

948340218

Publisher Number:

99971552958