Nabokov at the Limits | Redrawing Critical Boundaries | Lisa Zunshine

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Nabokov at the Limits

ABSTRACT

The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Ada's "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"

chapter 2|22 pages

Music in the Theater of the Mind: Opera and Vladimir Nabokov

chapter 3|26 pages

Resonances of Popular Music in Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada

chapter 4|18 pages

The Quest for a Natural Melody in the Fiction of Vladimir Nabokov

chapter 5|24 pages

Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka

chapter 6|16 pages

"Ballet Attitudes": Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty

chapter 7|34 pages

Pninian Performatives

chapter 8|22 pages

Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire

chapter 9|30 pages

European Art: A Framing Device?

chapter 10|22 pages

Nabokov and Comic Art

chapter 11|36 pages

Nabokov's Painted Parchments