A wide-ranging set of essays that both sharpen the focus and broaden the field, to include issues of ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics, as well as comparative studies that reveal the extent of Nabokov's engagement with formative developments in Russian and European literature and thought. (Barbara Wyllie, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 97 (2), April, 2019)
Table of Contents
Abbreviations for Titles of Nabokov's Works and Biography
Introduction
Nabokov's Morality Play
Michael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Responsible Reading
1
And So the Password Is-?: Nabokov and the Ethics of Rereading
Tom Whalen
2
Nabokov and Dostoevsky: Good Writer, Bad Reader?
Julian Connolly
3
The Will to Disempower? Nabokov and His Readers
Michael Rodgers
Good and Evil
4
Nabokov's God; God's Nabokov
Samuel Schuman
5
By Trial and Terror
Gennady Barabtarlo
6
The Aesthetics of Moral Contradiction in Some Early Nabokov Novels
David Rampton
Agency and Altruism
7
Loving and Giving in Nabokov's The Gift
Jacqueline Hamrit
8
Kinbote's Heroism
Laurence Piercy
The Ethics of Representation
9
Whether Judgments, Sentences, and Executions Satisfy the Moral Sense in Nabokov
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
10
The Art of Morality, or on Lolita
Leland de la Durantaye
11
Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sex
Elspeth Jajdelska
12
Modern Mimesis
Michael Wood
Notes on Contributors
Index