Fall 2008
Seminar on One Writer: Vladimir Nabokov
Listed in: English, as ENGL-95 | Russian, as RUSS-25
Faculty
Dale E. Peterson (Section 01)
Description
(Also English 95, section 3.) An attentive reading of works spanning Nabokov’s entire career, both as a Russian and English (or “Amero-Russianâ€) author, including autobiographical and critical writings, as well as his fiction and poetry. Special attention will be given to Nabokov’s lifelong meditation on the elusiveness of experienced time and on writing’s role as a supplement to loss and absence. Students will be encouraged to compare Nabokov’s many dramatizations of “invented worlds†and to consider them along with other Russian and Western texts, fictional and philosophical, that explore the mind’s defenses against exile and separation. All readings in English translation, with special assignments for those able to read Russian. Two meetings per week.
Limited to 20 students. Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Peterson.
Course times and locations
RUSS 25 - L/D
Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM MERR 403
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM MERR 403
Offerings
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