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---------------------------------------- • ---------------------------------------------- The european nabokov web, ClassiCism, and T.s. elioT a TexTual inTerpreTaTion of Pale Fire ----------------------------- ----------------------------------- robin h. davies studies in russian and slavic literatures, Cultures and history series editor: lazar fleishman (stanford universtity) ---------------------------------------- • ---------------------------------------------- The european nabokov web, ClassiCism, and T.s. elioT a TexTual inTerpreTaTion of Pale Fire ----------------------- robin h. davies ---------------------------- boston 2011 library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication data: a catalog record for this title is available from the library of Congress. Copyright © 2011 academic studies press all rights reserved isbn 978‐1‐936235‐65‐0 book design by olga Grabovsky on the cover: la Tempesta, by Giorgione published by academic studies press in 2011 28 montfern avenue brighton, ma 02135, usa [email protected] www.academicstudiespress.com The only way to arrive at an understanding of the individual life is by a painstaking accumulation of accurate detail. Vladimir Nabokov nec vaga tam tenui discurrit aranea tela, tam leve nec bombyx pendulus urget opus. (Neither does the errant spider run to and fro in a web so slender, nor the hanging silkworm press on with work so lightly.) Martial, epigrams 8. 33.15-16 The spider spreads her webs, whether she be in poet’s tower, cellar, barn or tree The silkworm in the dark green mulberry leaves His winding sheet and cradle ever weaves; So i, a thing whom moralists call worm, Sit spinning still round this decaying form, From the fine threads of rare and subtle thought— No net of words in garish colours wrought To catch the idle buzzers of the day— But a soft cell, where when that fades away, Memory may clothe in wings my living name and feed it with the asphodels of fame, Which in those hearts which must remember me Grow, making love an immortality. (Shelley, “letter to Maria Gisborne,” July 1820) ConTenTs abbreviaTions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi inTroduCTion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv i lingua franca and Topsyturvical Coincidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 ii in search of horace and a web of sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 iii heraclius, hamlet, and Genealogy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 iv Zembla—“how farce and epic Get a Jumbled race”. . . . . . . . . . 49 v hamlet unrestored: sémiramis and the royal Tomb. . . . . . . . . . 61 vi Classical affinities i: a modern aeneas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 vii Classical affinities ii: an ancient nisus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 viii The browning version and Contemporary reality . . . . . . . . . . 103 ix Corn, Cuckoldry, and the amazonian Chin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 x Toile d’eliot, or Combinational delight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 xi homeric shades around phoenicia: myth and reality . . . . . . . . 159 xii varia—selenography, kinbote/botkin, Glaucus, fénélon. . . . . . . 171 xiii murderous intrigues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 xiv Tragedy and the stagyrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ConTenTs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- xv dramatic poetry, regicide, and poetic drama . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 xvi Germanitas and les Germains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 xvii deus in machina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 biblioGraphY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 illusTraTions i marburg (maribor), general view, styria, austria-hungary—1890 . . . 14 ii nova Zemla––1616. novae Zemlae delineatio. Cartographer bertius, amsterdam . . . . . . 50 iii nova Zembla––1719. nouvelle Zemble. Cartographer mallet, frankfurt. . . . . . . . . . . 55 iv novaya Zemblaya — nasa satellite image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 v asolo in the Trevisan, scene of “pippa passes,” via browning . . . . . 106 — viii — --------------------------------------------------------------------- abbreviaTions -------------------------------------------------------------------- abbreviaTions ad’a aubignac abbé d’ la Pratique du Théâtre. af field, andrew Nabokov, His life in art ap aristotle Theory of Poetry and Fine art bbaY boyd, brian. The american Years bbpf boyd, brian Nabokov’s Pale Fire bbrp boyd,b. and pyle,r.m. Nabokov’s Butterflies eovn pushkin vladimir nakokov’s translation of eugene Onegin hlf des Granges, Ch.-m. Histoire de la littérature Française hsea horace Satires, epistles and ars Poetica me martial epigrams om ovid Metamorphoses pap pope, alexander The Poems of alexander Pope pC Corneille, pierre Trois Discours sur le Poème Dramatique pCh Corneille, pierre Heraclius pm meyer, priscilla Find What the Sailor Has Hidden rb browning, robert Collected Works TaJp Taylor,a.J.p. The Habsburg Monarchy Tse eliot,T.s. Collected Poems va virgil aeneid ve virgil eclogues vG virgil Georgics vn vladimir nabokov vCa voltaire Candide ou l’optimisme vCC voltaire Correspondance Choisie vse voltaire Sémiramis — ix — --------------------------------------------------------------------- abbreviaTions -------------------------------------------------------------------- reference bdpf brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable Cassells, london (1967) Cfd Collins french dictionary (1980) CGd Collins German dictionary (1980) Cld Cassell’s latin dictionary (2000) oed oxford english dictionary (1964) smaller 2 vol. edition Birds bna robbins, bruun and Zim Birds of North america Cbb fitter and richardson British Birds Butterflies bbe feltwell and hargreaves Butterflies of Britain and europe pean Tolman and lewington Papillons D’europe et D’afrique Du Nord — x —
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