The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2010

The Goalkeeper

The Nabokov Almanac

Edited by: Yuri Leving
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618117069

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About this book

The Goalkeeperis 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.

Author / Editor information

Leving Yuri :

Yuri Leving earned his PhD (summa cum laude) in 2002, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He came to Dalhousie University after two years teaching at The George Washington University (2004-2006). 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) and Upbringing by Optics: Book Illustration, Animation, and Text (2010). He also co-edited three volumes of articles, The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac (2010), Empire N. Nabokov and Heirs (2006), and Eglantine: Collection of Philological Essays to Honor the Sixtieth Anniversary of Roman Timenchik (2005).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).

Reviews

T.W. Thomas, Professor of Anthropology, Waindell College:
“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.”

Leland de la Durantaye, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University:
“The Goalkeeper is a remarkable team effort. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the life and art of Vladimir Nabokov.”

David Bethea, Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of Oxford:
“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.”

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
SLIDE TACKLE. FROM THE EDITOR Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
TEAM. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
FIELD. FORUM
NABOKOV STUDIES: STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIELD AND SCHOLARLY COOPERATION Brian Boyd, Jeff Edmunds, Maria Malikova and Leona Toker Open Access Download PDF	1
FIRST TIME BALL. RUSSIAN NABOKOV
ORHAN PAMUK AND VLADIMIR NABOKOV ON DOSTOEVSKY Neil Cornwell Open Access Download PDF	15
SACRIFICING THE MAIDEN(’S)HEAD: DECODING NABOKOV’S BURLESQUE OF SEX AND VIOLENCE IN INVITATION TO A BEHEADING Franklin Sciacca Open Access Download PDF	28
IRONY BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: INTERNAL ESCAPE FROM TOTALITARIANISM IN NABOKOV’S INVITATION TO A BEHEADING Yelizaveta Goldfarb Open Access Download PDF	48
NABOKOV’S INVITATION TO PLATO’S BEHEADING Alexander Moudrov Open Access Download PDF	60
CENTER CIRCLE. FORUM
INSTITUTIONALIZING NABOKOV: MUSEUM, ARCHIVE, EXHIBITION Alice Lotvin Birney, Isaac Gewirtz, Tatiana Ponomareva and Katherine Reagan Open Access Download PDF	74
NARROWING THE ANGLE. MEMOIR
A NEOPHYTE’S COLLISION WITH VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH Irwin Weil Open Access Download PDF	96
CORNER ARC. ENGLISH NABOKOV
NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE AND ALEXANDER POPE Gerard de Vries Open Access Download PDF	102
PICTURING MEMORY, PUNCTURING VISION: VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE Conall Cash Open Access Download PDF	124
TWO NOTES ON PALE FIRE John A. Barnstead Open Access Download PDF	152
A FOLD OF THE MARQUISETTE: NABOKOV’S LEPIDOPTERY IN VISUAL MEDIA Juan Martinez Open Access Download PDF	158
GOAL BOX. INTERVIEW
“LAURA IS NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL’S NAME” Suellen Stringer-Hye Open Access Download PDF	177
ONE TOUCH PASS. NABOKOV ACROSS THE LINES
“WHICH IS SEBASTIAN?” WHAT’S IN A (SHAKESPEAREAN AND NABOKOVIAN) NAME? Samuel Schuman Open Access Download PDF	193
AESTHETICS AND SIN: THE NYMPH AND THE FAUN IN HAWTHORNE’S THE MARBLE FAUN AND NABOKOV’S LOLITA Marta Pellerdi Open Access Download PDF	201
NABOKOV AND PRINCE D. S. MIRSKY Mikhail Efimov Open Access Download PDF	218
CORNER FLAG. INTERVIEW
“LOST IN TRANSIT” Yuri Leving Open Access Download PDF	230
MIDFIELD LINE. FORUM
TEACHING NABOKOV Priscilla Meyer, Christine Raguet, David Rampton and Corinne Scheiner Open Access Download PDF	239
RED CARD. ARCHIVE
“THE BOOK IS DAZZLINGLY BRILLIANT . . . BUT”. TWO EARLY INTERNAL REVIEWS OF NABOKOV’S THE GIFT Yuri Leving Open Access Download PDF	251
DANGEROUS PLAY. CONFERENCE
“REVISING NABOKOV REVISING” NABOKOV CONFERENCE IN KYOTO Marie Bouchet Open Access Download PDF	261
PENALTY AREA. BOOK REVIEWS
Graham Vickers, Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl All Over Again Zoe Aiano Open Access Download PDF	273
Approaches to Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita, edited by Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment Joseph Lynch Open Access Download PDF	277
Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin Rose France Open Access Download PDF	281
Vladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospodina Morna: P’esy, lektsii o drame, introduced and edited by Andrei Babikov Siggy Frank Open Access Download PDF	286
Pekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov’s Fiction: Four Essays Jan F. Zeschky Open Access Download PDF	291
END LINE. BIBLIOGRAPHY Open Access Download PDF	297
INDEX OF NAMES Open Access Download PDF	311

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 250

eBook

Published: December 17, 2017
ISBN: 9781618117069