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Zoological Label As Literary Form, Victor Fet Sep 2017

Zoological Label As Literary Form, Victor Fet

Victor Fet

Nabokov’s work is seen through the unique concept of zoological labels and their language. A label, written by a young naturalist, is a concentrated source of information, detail, and “naming the unnamed”; it reflects three Aristotelian unities (place, time, action).


Beheading First: On Nabokov's Translation Of Lewis Carroll, Victor Fet Sep 2017

Beheading First: On Nabokov's Translation Of Lewis Carroll, Victor Fet

Victor Fet

Anya v Strane chudes, young Nabokov’s 1923 Russian translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, contains an intentionally shifted statement “beheading first, sentence later” compared to Lewis Carroll’s “sentence first, verdict later”. The shift is fitting for the 1920s children émigré audience.


An Anti-Locust Campaign In Nabokov (And Pushkin), Victor Fet Sep 2017

An Anti-Locust Campaign In Nabokov (And Pushkin), Victor Fet

Victor Fet

Pushkin’s non-apocryphal anti-locust campaign is reflected in Nabokov’s unpublished sequel to The Gift.


Zoological Nomenclature And Kinbote’S Name Of God, Victor Fet Sep 2017

Zoological Nomenclature And Kinbote’S Name Of God, Victor Fet

Victor Fet

In Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Kinbote explains that the Name of God holds priority over Nature, etc. I show that the ‘priority principle’ here can be interpreted in the strict terms of zoological nomenclature.