Nabokov's World

Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: Reading Nabokov; J.Grayson Nabokov: A Centennial Toast; B.Boyd V.V. Nabokov and V.D. Nabokov: His Father's Voice; M.Malikova Nabokov's Exegi Monumentum : Immortality in Quotation Marks (Nabokov, Pushkin and Mikhail Gershenzon); V.Proskurina Intertextuality and (Meta)poesis: Some Enigmas of Nabokov's 'Seven Poems': M.Meylac White (K)Nights: Dostoevskian Dreamers in Nabokov's Early Stories; D.E.Peterson Looking at Harlequins: Nabokov, the World of Art and the Ballets Russes; S.E.Sweeney Paintings, Governesses, and 'Publishing Scoundrels': Nabokov and Henry James; N.Cornwell Nabokov, Snobism, and Selfhood in Pnin; C.Kelly Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats; J.Burt-Foster, Jr Broken Dates: Proust, Nabokov and Modern Time; M.Wood 'Did She Have a Precursor?': Lolita and Edith Wharton's The Children; E.Pifer How Did They Ever Make a Painting of Lolita?; J.D.Quin Transformations of Memory: Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Merrill; R.Trousdale The Real Hound: The Real Knight; P.Meyer VN/GP: Nabokovian Inscriptions in the Work of Georges Perec; D.Bellos Select Bibliography Index