Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature : Portraits of the Artist As Reader and Teacher.

Intro -- Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature: Portraits of the Artist as Reader and Teacher -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Reading Nabokov Teaching -- Part 1: Teacher among Authors -- 1 Nabokov's Reflections on 'Proust's Prismatic People' -- 2 'The Author's Pale Virgin Cheek': Nabokov on Austen -- 3 Vladimir Nabokov on Don Quixote: 'A Veritable Encyclopedia of Cruelty' -- 4 The Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov's Lecture on Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' -- 5 'As Flaubert Intended It to Be Discussed': Vladimir Nabokov and Jean Rousset on Madame Bovary -- Part 2: Critic among Critics -- 6 Nabokov on Joyce and Ulysses -- 7 Gogol Seen through the Eyes of Nabokov -- 8 On an Unhappy Marriage, Henry James, and Atoms: Vladimir Nabokov Reading (on) Anton Chekhov -- Part 3: Author among Authors -- 9 'Do Dogs Eat Poppies?': When Nabokov Teaches Flaubert -- 10 Of Words and Worlds: The Role of Proust's Aesthetics in Nabokov's Lectures on Literature -- 11 Vladimir Nabokov on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson -- Afterword: (Flipping) Nabokov in the Classroom -- Index.

These essays focus on Nabokov's lectures on European and Russian literature at American universities, and shed new light on the relationship of his views on aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre.

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