Boyd Nabokov's Pale Fire

The Magic of Artistic Discovery
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2319-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Brian Boyd is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of the prize-winning Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton 1990), Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton 1991), and Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Referred to in a recent journal as 'the great man of Nabokov studies,' he has also edited Nabokov's English novels and autobiography for the Library of America and Nabokov's Butterflies for Beacon Press.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 3

PART ONE - THESIS: READING STORY AS DISCOVERY 15

1. Foreword 17

2. Poem 25

3. Commentary 37

4. Index 63

5. Pale Fire 67

PART TWO - ANTITHESIS: REREADING IN SEARCH OF THE STORY BEHIND 75

6. Intrusions of the Real: Shade 77

7. Excursions from the Real: Kinbote 89

8. Problems: Shade and Kinbote 107

PART THREE - SYNTHESIS: RE-REREADING DISCOVERY AS STORY 127

9. Transformation 129

10. From Appalachia to Zembla: A Woman Spurned 149

11. "Pale Fire": Origins and Ends 173

12. "A Poem in Four Cantos": Sign and Design 188

13. From Zembla to Appalachia: The Contrapuntal Theme 207

14. "Pale Fire," Pale Fire, palefire: The Spiral Unwinds 233

Conclusion 247

Notes 263

Bibliography 291

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Boyd is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of the prize-winning Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton 1990), Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton 1991), and Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Referred to in a recent journal as "the great man of Nabokov studies," he has also edited Nabokov's English novels and autobiography for the Library of America and Nabokov's Butterflies for Beacon Press.