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Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures. Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokovs own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokovs concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokovs and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Tokers book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subjects own favored devices.

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Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used for the editions of Nabokovs works cited in this book.

AAda, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
BSBend Sinister (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).
DThe Defense , trans. Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1980).
DarDar (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1975).
DSDetails of a Sunset and Other Stories (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
DpDespair (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1979).
EThe Eye , trans. Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author (New York: Phaedra, 1965).
EnThe Enchanter , trans. Dmitri Nabokov (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1986).
EOEugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin, Translated from the Russian, with a Commentary by Vladimir Nabokov (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).
GThe Gift , trans. Michael Scammell with the collaboration of the author (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1979).
GlGlory , trans. Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
IBInvitation to a Beheading , trans. Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1979).
KQKKing, Queen, Knave , trans. Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
KdvKorol, dama, valet (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1979).
LThe Annotated Lolita , ed. Alfred Appel (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970).
LATHLook at the Harlequins! (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
LDLaughter in the Dark (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961).
LDQLectures on Don Quixote (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).
LLLectures on Literature (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980).
LRLLectures on Russian Literature (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981).
LSLolita: A Screenplay (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).
MMary , trans. Michael Glenny in collaboration with the author (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
MaMashenka (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).
MUSSRThe Man from the USSR and Other Plays , trans. Dmitri Nabokov (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984)
NDNabokovs Dozen: Thirteen Stories (London: Heinemann, 1959).
NGNikolai Gogol (New York: New Directions, 1961).
PPnin (London: Heinemann, 1957).
PdPodvig (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).
PFPale Fire (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962).
PPPoems and Problems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
PrPriglashenie na kazn (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1979).
PSPerepiska s sestroi (Correspondence with the sister) (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis 1985).
RBA Russian Beauty and Other Stories (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).
RLSKThe Real Life of Sebastian Knight (New York: New Directions, 1977).
SStikhi (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1979).
SMSpeak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1966).
SOStrong Opinions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
TDTyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
TTTransparent Things (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
ZLZashchita Luzhina (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1979).
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. Invitation to a Beheading: Nabokov and the Art of Politics. In Appel and Newman, Nabokov , pp. 4159.

. Nabokovs Game of Worlds. In Partial Magic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, pp. 180217.

Appel, Alfred, Jr. Nabokovs Dark Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

. Nabokovs Puppet Show. In Jerome Charyn, ed., The Single Voice , pp. 8793. London: Collier Macmillan, 1969.

Appel, Alfred, Jr., and Charles Newman, eds. Nabokov: Criticism, Reminiscences, Translations, and Tributes. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space , trans. Maria Jolas. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.

Bader, Julia. Crystal Land: Artifice in Nabokovs English Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Baer, Joachim T., and Norman W. Ingham, eds. Mnemozina: Studia literaria russica in honorem Vsevolod Setchkarev. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1974.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevskys Poetics , ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Bal, Mieke. Misc en abyme et iconicit. Littrature , 29 (1978), 11628.

Barabtarlo, Gene. Pushkin Embedded. Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter , 8 (1982), 283 I.

Bensick, Carol. His Folly, Her Weakness: Demystified Adultery in The Scarlet Letter. In Michael Colacurcio, ed., New Essays on The Scarlet Letter , pp. 13759. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Bergson, Henri. Laughter, In Comedy , pp. 61190. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956.

. Matter and Memory , trans. Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer. London: Allen & Unwin, 1929.

Bienstock, Beverly Gray. Focus Pocus: Film Imagery in Bend Sinister. In Rivers and Nicol, Fifth Arc , pp. 12538.

Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Boegman, Margaret Byrd. Invitation to a Beheading and the Many Shades of Kafka. In Rivers and Nicol, Fifth Arc , pp. 10516.

Booth, Wayne. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths. New York: New Directions, 1964.

. Narrative Art and Magic. Triquarterly , 25 (Fall 1972), 20915.

Boyd, Brian. Nabokovs Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1985.

Butler, Diana. Lolita Lepidoptera. In Roth, Critical Essays , pp. 5974. Reprinted from New World Writing , 16 (1960), 5884.

Carroll, William. Nabokovs Signs and Symbols. In Proffer, Book of Things , pp. 20317.

Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981.

. The Senses of Walden. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.

Chekhov. See Tchehov, A. P.

Clifton, Gladys M. Humbert Humbert and the Limits of Artistic License. In Rivers and Nicol, Fifth Arc , pp. 15370.

Couturier, Maurice. Nabokov. Lausanne: LAge dHomme, 1979.

Cowart, David. Art and Exile: Nabokovs Pnin. Studies in American Fiction , 10 (1982), 197207.

Dllenbach, Lucien. Le rcit spculaire: Essay sur le mise in abyme. Paris: Seuil, 1977.

Davydov, Sergei. The Gift: Nabokovs Aesthetic Exorcism of Cherny-shevskii. Canadian-American Slavic Studies , 19 (1985), 35774.

. Teksty-Matreshki Vladimira Nabokova. Munich: Otto Sagner, 1982.

De Jonge, Alex. Nabokovs Uses of Pattern. In Quennell, Nabokov: A Tribute , pp. 5972.

Dembo, L. S., ed. Nabokov: The Man and His Work. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Reprinted from Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature , 8, no. 2 (1967), special issue devoted to Vladimir Nabokov.

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times , ed. David Craig. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.

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