{"product_id":"the-goalkeeper-the-nabokov-almanac-9781618118301","title":"The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Goalkeeper\u003c\/em\u003e is a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of \u003cem\u003eLolita\u003c\/em\u003e viewed soccer as more than a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret” (Speak, Memory). The inaugural collection features contributions from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide, including academic articles (Neil Cornwell, Gerard de Vries, Samuel Schuman, and others); roundtable discussions (Brian Boyd, Jeff Edmunds, Priscilla Meyer, David Rampton, Leona Toker); interviews (Dmitri Nabokov, Alvin Toffler); archival materials; the Kyoto Nabokov conference report; and book reviews (Pekka Tammi, Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment). \u003cem\u003eThe Nabokov Almanac\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Yuri Leving, is affiliated with the \u003cem\u003eNabokov Online Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, published since 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A virtual cornucopia of Nabokoviana! With its impressive diversity of contributors and stylish format, Yuri Leving’s The Goalkeeper promises to be the place to look for the latest on one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and most stimulating thinkers.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— David Bethea, Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison \/ University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlide Tackle (from the editor)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeam (about the contributors)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eField: Forum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNabokov Studies: Strategic Development of the Field and Scholarly Cooperation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Time Ball: Russian Nabokov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSacrificing the Maiden('s) Head: Decoding Nabokov's Burlesque of Sex and Violence in Invitation to a Beheading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIrony Behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from Totalitarianism in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNabokov's Invitation to Plato's Beheading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCenter Circle: Forum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstitutionalizing Nabokov: Museum, Archive, Exhibition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarrowing the Angle: Memoir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Neophyte's Collision with Vladimir Vladimirovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorner Arc: English Nabokov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNabokov's Pale Fire and Alexander Pope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePicturing Memory, Puncturing Vision: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Notes on Pale Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Fold of the Marquisette: Nabokov's Lepidoptery in Visual Media\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoal Box: Interview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Interview with Dmitiri Nabokov by Suellen Stringer-Hye, \"\"Laura is Not Even the Original's Name.\"\" One Touch Pass: Nabokov across the Lines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"Which is Sebastian?\"\" What's in a (Shakespearean and Nabokovian) Name? Aesthetics and Sin: The Nymph and the Faun in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Nabokov's Lolita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNabokov and Prince D.S\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMirsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorner Flag: Interview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Interview with Alvin Toffler by Yuri Leving, \"\"Lost in Transit.\"\" Midfield Line: Forum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeaching Nabokov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Card: Archive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"The book is dazzlingly brilliant..\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBut\"\": Two early internal reviews of Nabokov's The Gift\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDangerous Play: Conference\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"Revising Nabokov Revising\"\" Nabokov Conference in Kyoto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenalty Area: Book Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl all Over Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVersus and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospadinaMorna: P'esy, lektsii o drame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction: Four Essays\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnd Line: Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex of Names.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359756747095,"sku":"9781618118301","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-goalkeeper-the-nabokov-almanac-9781618118301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}