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Author:   Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
ISBN:  

9798887197296

Pages:   318
Publication Date:   05 June 2025
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction: Nabokov on the Heights (and in Boston)Maxim D. Shrayer Nabokov in Boston: A Photo Essay Matthew Lyberg Angst and Asymptote: The Success Motif in Nabokov’s Fiction Eric Weiskott Unlimited Time: Visual Art and Temporality in Vladimir Nabokov’s “La Veneziana” and “The Visit to the Museum” Megumi DeMond Marriage and Its Discontents: Infidelity and Unhappiness in Vladimir Nabokov's Life and Art Ciara Spencer Joyce’s L. Bloom to Nabokov’s Cincinnatus C.: The Influence of Joyce’s Ulysses on Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading Nina Khaghany “That Skip-Space Piece”: Positioning the Knight in Nabokov’s Poetics Nick Adler Sharing Other Worlds: Companionship and Coauthorship in The Gift and Glory Fiona Steacy  Other (Dis)enchanted Motels: Nabokov’s Chronicles of Suburban America Jared Hackworth Questions of Style and Technique: Death and Immortality in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov Katie Pelkey Nabokov, the Poetics of Religious Conversion, and the Post-Shoah Reckoning Maxim D. Shrayer “She stands before me as a living child”: Aestheticism, Sentimentality, and Desire in Lolita Kevin Ohi Vladimir Nabokov and the Fruits of Fiction Brendan McCourt Negotiating Nabokov within America’s Political and Social Context Samuel Peterson Acknowledgments Index of Names and Places Contributors

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“This compelling collection offers fresh insights into Vladimir Nabokov’s life and artistic legacy.The editor’s essay draws on fascinating new archival information to illuminate Nabokov’s ties to Boston and environs, while the other wide-ranging essays showcase his brilliance as a literary innovator and cultural icon. Essential reading for scholars and admirers of Nabokov alike.”— Vladimir E. Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus, Yale University, and author of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks “Nabokov on the Heights is a tribute both to Nabokov’s ability to engage a new generation of readers and to Maxim D. Shrayer’s skill in guiding them as they seek to convert their enthusiasm into meaningful scholarship. This volume celebrates Nabokov in Boston, encompassing his life in that city and readings of his work produced by former students and current colleagues of Shrayer at Boston College. The readings, thankfully, do not produce a unified interpretation of the writer, but they bear witness to a shared sense of scholarly community. There are already several books on teaching Nabokov, but this book is different, since it reflects and extends what has already happened in the classroom. A successful class is only the start of a continuing relationship with its teacher and its texts. By retrograde analysis, one can read Nabokov on the Heights to discover what can happen when one teaches Nabokov well.” — Eric Naiman, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Nabokov, Perversely. “In celebration of the role that the colleges and universities of Massachusetts played in the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov, the scholars of Boston College have located and filled in gaps in Nabokov studies, stimulating further thought and discussion.” — Leona Toker, Professor Emerita, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures

Author Information

Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish studies program. Shrayer is the author and editor of over thirty books of nonfiction, biography, fiction, poetry, and translations, most recently the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the collection of poetry Conductor from Zion Square. Shrayer has published four books about Vladimir Nabokov and regularly teaches Nabokov seminars at Boston College. His works have been translated into thirteen languages. For more information, visit www.shrayer.com

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