Vladimir Nabokov's Bilingual Poetry by Emeliyanova, Maria;

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The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-translated poetry, examining texts from his novels The Gift and Lolita, stories, and collections to explore how bilingualism, memory, and poetic form intersect in a unique interlingual space central to his literary practice.

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), author of such bestselling novels as Lolita and Pale Fire, was also an extraordinarily prolific poet, a poetry translator, and a self- translator. Yet, the intersection of these activities – Nabokov’s endeavour as a self- translator of poetry – remains largely unexplored to this day. This book represents the very first exhaustive analysis of the poems Nabokov self-translated for his novels, short stories, and poetry collections. The results of this study shed completely new light on Nabokov’s lifelong involvement with poetry and its translation by introducing self-translated poetry as an interlingual poetic space where the intricate connections between poetry, memory, and bilingualism can be solved.

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Table of Contents:

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration



Introduction

Part 1 Nabokov&&&x2019;s Fictional Poets

1 A Fissure in Time: Poetry as a Moral Art



2 The Gift: The Poetry of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev

 1 &&&x201C;Stikhi&&&x201D;

 2 &&&x201C;Beyond the Skyline of the Page:&&&x201D; Fyodor&&&x2019;s Poetry after &&&x201C;Stikhi&&&x201D;

 3 Intertextuality and Poetry: Giving Fyodor&&&x2019;s Russian Muses an English Voice



3 Lolita: A Maniac&&&x2019;s &&&x201C;Masterpieces&&&x201D;

 1 Quotation and Parody

 2 Humbert&&&x2019;s &&&x201C;Original&&&x201D; Verses

Part 2 Poems and Problems

4 Introduction: A Self-Translator&&&x2019;s Doubts



5 Matter or Manner?

 1 When Matter Is Manner

 2 Poetic Measure

 3 Rhyme and Sound

 4 Paraphrase vs. Equilinearity

 5 Narrative Mechanisms

 6 Vocabulary



6 Cultural References, Intertextuality, and Footnotes



Concluding Remarks



Bibliography

Index

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