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Yuri Leving (PhD The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is involved in research on visual arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has taught at The George Washington University and is now at Dalhousie University. His main field of interest is Russian literature, culture and film. Leving is the author of Train Station – Garage – Hangar: Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism (2004, Short-listed for Andrey Bely Prize). He also co-edited two volumes of articles, Eglantine: Collection of Philological Essays to Honor the Sixtieth Anniversary of Roman Timenchik (2005) and Empire N. Nabokov and Heirs (2006).

“A virtual cornucopia of Nabokoviana! With its impressive diversity of contributors and stylish format, Yuri Leving’s The Goalkeeper promises to be the place to look for the latest on one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and most stimulating thinkers.”

• Slide Tackle (from the editor). Team (about the contributors). Field: Forum. Nabokov Studies: Strategic Development of the Field and Scholarly Cooperation. First Time Ball: Russian Nabokov. Orhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on Dostoevsky. Sacrificing the Maiden('s) Head: Decoding Nabokov's Burlesque of Sex and Violence in Invitation to a Beheading. Irony Behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from Totalitarianism in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. Nabokov's Invitation to Plato's Beheading. Center Circle: Forum. Institutionalizing Nabokov: Museum, Archive, Exhibition. Narrowing the Angle: Memoir. A Neophyte's Collision with Vladimir Vladimirovich. Corner Arc: English Nabokov. Nabokov's Pale Fire and Alexander Pope. Picturing Memory, Puncturing Vision: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. Two Notes on Pale Fire. A Fold of the Marquisette: Nabokov's Lepidoptery in Visual Media. Goal Box: Interview. An Interview with Dmitiri Nabokov by Suellen Stringer-Hye, "Laura is Not Even the Original's Name." One Touch Pass: Nabokov across the Lines. "Which is Sebastian?" What's in a (Shakespearean and Nabokovian) Name? Aesthetics and Sin: The Nymph and the Faun in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Nabokov's Lolita. Nabokov and Prince D.S. Mirsky. Corner Flag: Interview. An Interview with Alvin Toffler by Yuri Leving, "Lost in Transit." Midfield Line: Forum. Teaching Nabokov. Red Card: Archive. "The book is dazzlingly brilliant... But": Two early internal reviews of Nabokov's The Gift. Dangerous Play: Conference. "Revising Nabokov Revising" Nabokov Conference in Kyoto. Penalty Area: Book Reviews. Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl all Over Again. Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita. Versus and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospadinaMorna: P'esy, lektsii o drame. Pekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction: Four Essays. End Line: Bibliography. Index of Names.