The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir E. Alexandrov

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780815303541
• eBook ISBN: 9781136601569
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

First published in 1995. This companion constitutes a virtual encyclopaedia of Nabokov, and occupies a unique niche in scholarship about him. Articles on individual works by Nabokov, including his short stories and poetry, provide a brief survey of critical reactions and detailed analyses from diverse vantage points. For anyone interested in Nabokov, from scholars to readers who love his works, this is an ideal guide. Its chronology of Nabokov's life and works, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and a detailed index make it easy to find reliable information any aspect of Nabokov's rich legacy.

Index

(Page numbers in bold refer to individual articles about the particular topics.)

Acmeism, 284, 359, 428, 456, 462 n.18

Ada, xlvii–xlix passim, 3–18, 29, 38, 41, 42, 72, 136, 146, 224, 228, 294, 335, 343, 344, 370, 380, 382–88, 398, 399, 406, 410, 413–15 passim, 435, 438, 467, 479–80, 511 n.37, 514, 518–20 passim, 529, 533, 534, 538, 539, 544, 545, 547, 707, 715, 722, 723, 725

Adamovich, Georgy, 140, 142, 143, 149, 168 n.53, 392, 459–60, 484, 485, 494, 619, 657, 658

“Admiralteiskaia igla,” see “The Admiralty Spire”

“The Admiralty Spire” (“Admiralteiskaia igla”), 294, 352, 486–87, 645, 654

Adorno, Theodor, 28

aesthetics, 15–16, 35, 49, 497, 505, 568

“An Affair of Honor” (“Podlets”), xxxvii, 24, 393, 650

Agasfer, see Ahasuerus

Ahasuerus (Agasfer), 596–97

Aikhenval’d, Iuly, xxxvii, 356, 453, 738

Aksakov, Sergei, 672, 673

Aksenov, Vasily, 293

Albee, Edward, 542

Aldanov, Mark, xl, 140, 149

Alice in Wonderland, 637–38, 714; see also Ania v strane chudes; Lewis Carroll

American literature, 536–48 passim

Amfiteatrov-Kadashev, Vladimir (“Zelenoe tsarstvo”), 652

“Angels” (“Angely”), 618

“Angely,” see “Angels”

Ania v strane chudes (Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll; trans, by Nabokov), xxxvi, 18–25, 38, 100 n.17, 179, 189, 232, 438, 446, 558, 714, 715

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Contributors
• Note on References and Abbreviations
• Note on Transliteration
• Chronology of Nabokov’s Life and Works
• Ada
• Ania v strane chudes
• Bend Sinister
• Bilingualism
• Chess and Chess Problems
• Correspondence
• Critical Reception
• The Defense
• Despair
• English Short Stories
• Eugene Onegin
• The Eye
• The Gift
• Glory
• A Hero of Our Time
• Humor
• Invitation to a Beheading
• King, Queen, Knave
• Laughter in the Dark
• Lectures on Don Quixote
• Lectures on Literature
• Lectures on Russian Literature
• Lepidoptera Studies
• Library
• Literary Return to Russia
• Lolita
• Lolita in Russian
• Look at the Harlequins!
• Manuscripts
• Mary
• Nabokov and Bely
• Nabokov and Bergson
• Nabokov and Blok
• Nabokov and Chateaubriand
• Nabokov and Chekhov
• Nabokov and Dostoevsky
• Nabokov and Evreinov
• Nabokov and Flaubert
• Nabokov and Freud
• Nabokov and Gogol
• Nabokov and Gumilev
• Nabokov and Joyce
• Nabokov and Kafka
• Nabokov and Khodasevich
• Nabokov and Poe
• Nabokov and Proust
• Nabokov and Pushkin
• Nabokov and Shakespeare: The English Works
• Nabokov and Shakespeare: The Russian Works
• Nabokov and Tolstoy
• Nabokov and Some Turn-of-the-Century English Writers
• Nabokov, Updike, and American Literature
• Nabokov and Uspensky
• Nature and Artifice
• Nikolka Persik
• Notes on Prosody
• “The Otherworld”
• Pale Fire
• Plays
• Pnin
• Poetry
• Politics
• “Poshlost’”
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
• Russian Short Stories
• The Song of Igor’s Campaign
• Speak, Memory
• Strong Opinions
• Style
• Teaching
• Three Russian Poets
• Translation and Self-Translation
• Transparent Things
• Uncollected Critical Writings
• Bibliography
• Index