Now Available: The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac

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The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac

By Yuri Leving

 

ISBN 978-1-936235-19-3 (cloth) $39.00 / £32.50

326 pp., November 2010

 

Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Culture and History

 

Bibliographic Data: 1. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 --
Criticism and Interpretation. I. Leving, Urii.

 

Topic Areas: Russian Literature, Literary Criticism, 

 

Level: Academic and General Reader / Textbook

 

The Goalkeeper is a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir
Nabokov. Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of Lolita viewed soccer as
more than a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of
a secret” (Speak, Memory). The inaugural collection features contributions
from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide, including academic
articles (Neil Cornwell, Gerard de Vries, Samuel Schuman, and others);
roundtable discussions (Brian Boyd, Jeff Edmunds, Priscilla Meyer, David
Rampton, Leona Toker); interviews (Dmitri Nabokov, Alvin Toffler); archival
materials; the Kyoto Nabokov conference report; and book reviews (Pekka
Tammi, Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment). The Nabokov Almanac, edited by Yuri
Leving, is affiliated with the Nabokov Online Journal, published since 2007
(www.nabokovonline.com).

 

About the Editor: 

Yuri Leving (Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002) is an Associate
Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian Studies at Dalhousie
University. His main field of interest is Russian literature, culture and
film. Leving is the author of over sixty academic articles, a book, Train
Station – Garage – Hangar. Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism
(2004, Short-listed for Andrey Bely Prize), co-editor of two volumes of
articles, Eglantine (2005) and Empire N. Nabokov and Heirs (2006). Leving is
also the editor of the Nabokov Online Journal.

 

Praise for the Goalkeeper:

“The Goalkeeper is a remarkable team effort. It should be required reading
for anyone interested in the life and art of Vladimir Nabokov.”   

-- Leland de la Durantaye, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English,
Harvard University

 

“The book that emerges is one of those gifts whose first impact produces in
the recipient’s mind a colored image, a blazoned blur, reflecting with such
emblematic force the sweet nature of the contributors.”

-- T.W. Thomas, Professor of Anthropology, Waindell College

 

Table of Contents:

 

Slide Tackle

>From the Editor
ix

Team 

About the Contributors
xii

 

 Field

Forum (Brian Boyd, Jeff Edmunds, Maria Malikova,

 Leona Toker)

 

Nabokov Studies: Strategic Development of the 

Field and Scholarly Cooperation
1

 

First Time Ball

 Russian Nabokov

 Orhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on Dostoevsky                    15

 

 Sacrificing the Maiden('s) Head: Decoding Nabokov's 

Burlesque of Sex and Violence in Invitation to a Beheading        28

 

Irony Behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from 

Totalitarianism in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading 48

 

 Nabokov's Invitation to Plato's Beheading
60

 

Center Circle

Forum (Alice Lotvin Birney, Isaac Gewirtz, Tatiana Ponomareva, 

Katherine Reagan)

 

Institutionalizing Nabokov: Museum, Archive, Exhibition             74

 

Narrowing the Angle

Memoir

 

A Neophyte's Collision with Vladimir Vladimirovich                      96

 

Corner Arc

English Nabokov

 

Nabokov's Pale Fire and Alexander Pope
102

 

Picturing Memory, Puncturing Vision: 

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
124

 

Two Notes on Pale Fire
152

 

 A Fold of the Marquisette: Nabokov's Lepidoptery 

in Visual Media
158

 

 Goal Box

Interview

 An Interview with Dmitri Nabokov by Suellen Stringer-Hye

 "Laura is Not Even the Original's Name"
177

 

One Touch Pass

Nabokov across the Lines

 "Which is Sebastian?" What's in a (Shakespearean 

and Nabokovian) Name?
193

 

Aesthetics and Sin: The Nymph and the Faun in 

Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Nabokov's Lolita                    201

 

 Nabokov and Prince D.S. Mirsky
218

 

Corner Flag

Interview

 An Interview with Alvin Toffler by Yuri Leving

 "Lost in Transit"
230

 

Midfield Line

Forum (Priscilla Meyer, Christine Raguet, David Rampton, 

Corinne Scheiner)

Teaching Nabokov
239

 

Red Card

Archive

 "The book is dazzlingly brilliant... But"

Two early internal reviews of Nabokov's The Gift
251

 

Dangerous Play

Conference

 "Revising Nabokov Revising" Nabokov 

Conference in Kyoto
261

 

Penalty Area

Book Reviews 

 

Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted 

Nabokov's Little Girl all Over Again
273

 

Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita
277

 

Versus and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry,

 selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov
281

 

 Vladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospadinaMorna: 

P'esy, lektsii o drame
286

 

Pekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction:

 Four Essays
291

 

 End Line

Bibliography
297

 

Index of Names
311

 

Also of Interest:

 

A Reader’s Guide to Nabokov’s “Lolita” by Julian Connolly

 

Cloth 978-1-934843-65-9

$40.00 / £33.50

 

Paper 978-1-934843-66-6

$21.00 / £17.50

 

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Academic Studies Press

 


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