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Week 3: Introduction: Theory of Biography, Nabokov¡¯s autobiographical self-mystification, literary rivalry with Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Bunin and Pasternak.

Week 4: Cernyshevsky¡¯s biography¡° from The Gift (100 pp.) ?Hannibal¡¯s biography¡° from Nabokov¡¯s commentary to Pushkin¡¯s Eugene Onegin (30 pp.)

Week 5: Nabokov-Criticism I. An Archeology of 'Mademoiselle O': Narrative between Art and Memory. By: Foster, John Burt, Jr.. pp. 111-35 IN: Nicol, Charles (ed.); Barabtarlo, Gennady (ed.) A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction. New York: Garland; 1993. xv, 239 pp. English as Sanctuary: Nabokov's and Brodsky's Autobiographical Writings. By: Diment, Galya; Slavic and East European Journal, 1993 Fall; 37 (3): 346-61. Fiction, Biography, History: Nabokov's The Gift. By: Begnal, Michael H.; Journal of Narrative Technique, 1980; 10: 138-43. Nabokov's Third-Person Selves By: Morrison, James; Philological Quarterly, 1992 Fall; 71 (4): 495-509. 'The Line down the Middle' in Autobiography: Critical Implications of the Quest for the Self. By: Arana, R. Victoria. pp. 125-137 IN: Crook, Eugene J. (ed.) Fearful Symmetry: Doubles and Doubling in Literature and Film. Tallahassee: UP of Florida (Florida State Univ. Book); 1982. x, 175 pp. Toward the Man behind the Mystification. By: Roth, Phyllis A.. pp. 43-59 IN: Rivers, Julius Edwin (ed.); Nicol, Charles (ed.) Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work. Austin: U of Texas P; 1982. xvi, 317 pp. Transformations of Memory: Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov and James Merrill. By: Trousdale, Rachel. pp. II: 193-203 IN: Grayson, Jane (ed. and introd.); McMillin, Arnold (ed.); Meyer, Priscilla (ed.) Nabokov's World, I: The Shape of Nabokov's World; II: Reading Nabokov. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave, with School of Slavonic and East European Studies; 2002. xvi, 237 + xvii, 241 pp. Johnson, D[onald] Barton: "Eyeing Nabokov's Eye". Canadian-American Slavic Studies (Vancouver, British Columbia), 19(3), Fall 1985, pp. 328-350.

Week 6: Reading week

Week 7: ?The Eye¡°/¡°Sogljadataj¡° (100 pp.)

Week 8: Reading week

Week 9: Ada or Ardor (500 pp.)

Week 10: Andrew Field : Nabokov ¨C his life in art (1967), Nabokov ¨C his life in part (1977), VN, the life and art of Vladimir Nabokov (1986) (extracts 100 pp.)

Week 11: Nabokov-Criticism II Visions of a 'Perfect Past': Nabokov, Autobiography, Biography, and Fiction. By: Green, Geoffrey; Nabokov Studies, 1996; 3: 89-100. Nabokov's Textobiography. By: Shrayer, Maxim D.; Modern Language Review, 1999 Jan; 94 (1): 132-49. Nabokov's Biographical Impulse: Art of Writing Lives. By: Diment, Galya. pp. 170-84 IN: Connolly, Julian W. (ed. and introd.) The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP; 2005. xxiii, 258 pp.'Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the Claims of the Real By: Kuzmanovich, Zoran. pp. I: 26-46 IN: Grayson, Jane (ed. and introd.); McMillin, Arnold (ed.); Meyer, Priscilla (ed.) Nabokov's World, I: The Shape of Nabokov's World; II: Reading Nabokov. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave, with School of Slavonic and East European Studies; 2002. xvi, 237 + xvii, 241 pp. Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokov's English novels By: Grabes, Herbert. The Hague: Mouton, 1977, pp. 70-130.

Week 12: Transparent Things (150 pp.)

Week 13: Reading week

Week 14: Reading week

Week 15: Look at the Harlequins! (150 pp.)

Week 16: Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited (300 pp.)