New "Nabokov Online Journal" (V-VI, 2011/12)

[NOJ]

The new double issue of the "Nabokov Online Journal" (V-VI, 2011/12) is out! 
www.nabokovonline.com

It contains articles on various aspects of Nabokov’s artistic legacy, including a special cluster on the author’s unfinished novel, "The Original of Laura," and a selection of articles dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Pale Fire." 

Please pay attention at the announcements of the new prizes in the area of the Nabokov Studies as well as the call for papers.

Yuri Leving, Editor 
The NOJ Editorial Board

CONTENTS

Special Double Issue, Vols. V-VI (2011/12)
Volume V / 2011

EDITORIAL
Announcement of the New Prizes in the Area of Nabokov Studies

IN MEMORIAM DMITRI NABOKOV (1934-2012)

Gennady Barabtarlo
DMITRI NABOKOV

Maxim D. Shrayer
DMITRI NABOKOV: UNFINISHED PHOTOGRAPHS

Nikki Smith
DMITRI NABOKOV

Irena Ronen
IN MEMORY OF DMITRI NABOKOV [Rus]

INTERVIEW

"I COLLECT ONLY NABOKOV" 
An Interview with Terry Myers

THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA
Special Cluster

FORUM
Galya Diment, Leland de la Durantaye, Michael Juliar, Eric Naiman, Olga Voronina
PUBLISHING THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA

ARTICLES

Andrei Babikov
ART'S PRECIOUS BRITTLENESS

Marijeta Bozovic
LOVE, DEATH, NABOKOV: LOOKING FOR THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA

Trevor Jackson
DYING IS APPOSITE: POSSIBILITIES OF SELF DISCOVERY AND PATTERNS OF COMPLETENESS IN THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA

Akiko Nakata 
THE LAST MUSE ESCAPES THE TEXT

MULTIMEDIA: TOOL & Tools
Denis Kierans 
HOW TO TEACH YOUR COMPUTER TO WRITE IN NABOKOV'S HAND

ARTICLES

Julia Vaingurt
UNFAIR USE: PARODY, PLAGIARISM, AND OTHER SUSPICIOUS PRACTICES IN AND AROUND LOLITA

Erik Van Ooijen 
OGLING LO: FOR AN EROTICS OF LITERARY DESCRIPTION

ARCHIVE
Ksenia Egorova 
KIRILL NABOKOV, THE POET FROM PRAGUE [Rus]

CONFERENCE
"NABOKOV UPSIDE DOWN." The University of Auckland, New Zealand, January 10-13, 2012

BOOK REVIEWS

Barbara Wyllie 
Vladimir Nabokov 
(MICAELA MAFTEI)

Transitional Nabokov 
Ed. by Will Norman and Duncan White
(UDITH DEMATAGODA)

Michael Glynn 
Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels
(OLGA SOBOLEV)

Julian W. Connolly 
A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's Lolita;
and
Jerold J. Abrams, Ed.
The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
(JOSEPH LYNCH)

Lila Azam Zanganeh 
The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness
(CALUM AGNEW)

Volume VI / 2012

Call for Papers
Special Issue: "Nabokov Studies in Translation"
Vol. VII (2013)

FORUM

Hal Ackerman, Murray Biggs, John Crossley, Wayne Goodman, Frederick White
NABOKOV'S SHORT STORY "SIGNS AND SYMBOLS":
An Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion

ARTICLES

Alexei Lalo
"RULES OF ATTRACTION" IN NABOKOV'S LOLITA: SEXUAL PORTRAITS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEIR SLAVIC PEDIGREE

Mikhail Efimov
WALKING ON THE ICE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH SHADOWS (COMMENTARY TO A POEM BY NABOKOV) [Rus]

PALE FIRE:
Alternative Theories, New Discoveries
Special Cluster dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the publication of Vladimir Nabokov's novel

James Ramey 
PALE FIRE'S BLACK CROWN

René Alladaye 
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS – PALE FIRE AS ANAMORPHOSIS: 
AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY OF INTERNAL AUTHORSHIP

Simon Rowberry
"HIS AND MY READER": REREADING PALE FIRE HYPERTEXTUALLY

Robin Davies
MURDEROUS INTRIGUES AND THE ADULTEROUS WEB OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ONHAVA

Yuri Leving
EYSTEIN OR EISENSTEIN? TRICKING THE EYE IN NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE

PALE FIRE: CANTATA
Composed by Vladimir Mylnikov

ARCHIVE

Leonid Chertkov
NABOKOV'S FORGOTTEN OBITUARY: "A Magician Who Has Grown a Living Tree Branch in a Desert" [Rus]

Evgeniia Kannak
MEMOIRS ABOUT SIRIN [Rus]

NEW TRANSLATIONS

Vladimir Nabokov
"THE ROOM"
Translated from English by Andrey Vakhrulin [Rus]

MULTIMEDIA
KEYS TO THE GIFT: THE NEW WEBSITE

CONFERENCE

Michael Rodgers, Lyndsay Miller
"NABOKOV AND MORALITY." University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 5–6 May, 2011

BOOK REVIEWS

Thomas Karshan
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play
(LEONA TOKER)

Barbara Wyllie
Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction
(LARS KRISTENSEN )

Michael Maar
Speak, Nabokov
(UDITH DEMATAGODA)

Eric Naiman 
Nabokov, Perversely 
(MICHAEL RODGERS)

Stephen H. Blackwell 
The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the World of Science 
(DONALD RAYFIELD)

-- 
Dr. Yuri Leving
Chair, Department of Russian Studies
Dalhousie University
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PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS  B3H 4R2
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