AESTHETICS AND SIN: THE NYMPH AND THE FAUN IN HAWTHORNE’S THE MARBLE FAUN AND NABOKOV’S LOLITA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. SLIDE TACKLE. FROM THE EDITOR ix
4. TEAM. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS xiii
5. FIELD. FORUM
6. NABOKOV STUDIES: STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIELD AND SCHOLARLY COOPERATION 1
7. FIRST TIME BALL. RUSSIAN NABOKOV
8. ORHAN PAMUK AND VLADIMIR NABOKOV ON DOSTOEVSKY 15
9. SACRIFICING THE MAIDEN(’S)HEAD: DECODING NABOKOV’S BURLESQUE OF SEX AND VIOLENCE IN INVITATION TO A BEHEADING 28
10. IRONY BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: INTERNAL ESCAPE FROM TOTALITARIANISM IN NABOKOV’S INVITATION TO A BEHEADING 48
11. NABOKOV’S INVITATION TO PLATO’S BEHEADING 60
12. CENTER CIRCLE. FORUM
13. INSTITUTIONALIZING NABOKOV: MUSEUM, ARCHIVE, EXHIBITION 74
14. NARROWING THE ANGLE. MEMOIR
15. A NEOPHYTE’S COLLISION WITH VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH 96
16. CORNER ARC. ENGLISH NABOKOV
17. NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE AND ALEXANDER POPE 102
18. PICTURING MEMORY, PUNCTURING VISION: VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE 124
19. TWO NOTES ON PALE FIRE 152
20. A FOLD OF THE MARQUISETTE: NABOKOV’S LEPIDOPTERY IN VISUAL MEDIA 158
21. GOAL BOX. INTERVIEW
22. “LAURA IS NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL’S NAME” 177
23. ONE TOUCH PASS. NABOKOV ACROSS THE LINES
24. “WHICH IS SEBASTIAN?” WHAT’S IN A (SHAKESPEAREAN AND NABOKOVIAN) NAME? 193
25. AESTHETICS AND SIN: THE NYMPH AND THE FAUN IN HAWTHORNE’S THE MARBLE FAUN AND NABOKOV’S LOLITA 201
26. NABOKOV AND PRINCE D. S. MIRSKY 218
27. CORNER FLAG. INTERVIEW
28. “LOST IN TRANSIT” 230
29. MIDFIELD LINE. FORUM
30. TEACHING NABOKOV 239
31. RED CARD. ARCHIVE
32. “THE BOOK IS DAZZLINGLY BRILLIANT . . . BUT”. TWO EARLY INTERNAL REVIEWS OF NABOKOV’S THE GIFT 251
33. DANGEROUS PLAY. CONFERENCE
34. “REVISING NABOKOV REVISING” NABOKOV CONFERENCE IN KYOTO 261
35. PENALTY AREA. BOOK REVIEWS
36. Graham Vickers, Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl All Over Again 273
37. Approaches to Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita, edited by Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment 277
38. Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin 281
39. Vladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospodina Morna: P’esy, lektsii o drame, introduced and edited by Andrei Babikov 286
40. Pekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov’s Fiction: Four Essays 291
41. END LINE. BIBLIOGRAPHY 297
42. INDEX OF NAMES 311