Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet.
Table of Contents
Ada's Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre /D. Barton Johnson --Music in the theater of the mind : opera and Vladimir Nabokov /Charles Nicol --Resonances of popular music in Lolita, Pale fire and Ada /Barbara Wyllie --Quest for a natural melody in the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov /Julian W. Connolly --Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a beheading and Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka /Nassim W. Balestrini --Ballet attitudes : Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The sleeping beauty /Susan Elizabeth Sweeney --Pninian performatives /Masha Raskolnikov --Alexander Pope's The rape of the lock and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale fire /Lisa Zunshine --European art : a framing device? /Christine Raguet-Bouvart --Nabokov and comic art /Gavriel Shapiro --Nabokov's painted parchments /Ralph A. Ciancio.