Transitional Nabokov

The Editors: Will Norman is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Kent. He studied English at the University of Nottingham before going on to complete his M.Phil. and D.Phil. at New College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis was on Nabokov, time and history.Duncan White is writing a doctoral thesis on Nabokov at Linacre College, Oxford. He was awarded a B.A. in English literature from the University of Cambridge and received his M.A. in Russian literature from University College London.

• Contents: Will Norman/Duncan White: Introduction – Stephen H. Blackwell: Nabokov’s Fugitive Sense – Brian Boyd: Literature, Pattern, Lolita: Or Art, Literature, Science – Leland de la Durantaye: Artistic Selection: Science and Art in Vladimir Nabokov – Susan Elizabeth Sweeney: Thinking about Impossible Things in Nabokov – Christine Raguet: Beyond Creativity: Translation as a Transitional Process: Ada in French – Rachel Trousdale: «International Fraternity»: Nabokov, Chabon, and the Model Transnational – Neil Cornwell: Secrets, Memories and Lives: Nabokov and Pamuk – Maurice Couturier: The French Nabokov – Lara Delage-Toriel: Bodies in Translation: Deriving Meaning from Motion in Nabokov’s Works – Siggy Frank: «By Nature I am no Dramatist»: Theatricality in Nabokov’s Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s – Emily Collins: «A Luminous Web»: Nabokov’s Magical Objects – Yuri Leving: Singing The Bells and The Covetous Knight: Nabokov and Rachmaninoff’s Operatic Translations of Poe and Pushkin – Michael Wood: The Kindness of Cruelty – Thomas Karshan: Nabokov’s Transition from Game towards Free Play, 1934-1947 – Ronald Bush: Tennis by the Book: Lolita and the Game of Modernist Fiction – Zoran Kuzmanovich: No Ghosts Walk.