Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Brian Boyd
Part One: Upside Down: Matter to Mind
Reflections on (and of) Trees in Nabokov
Stephen Blackwell
Backwards, Contrariwise, Downside Up: Thinking in Different Directions in Nabokov
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Belly and Brain, Mind and Matter: An upside down look at Nabokov’s Humour
Paul Grant
Some Foodnotes to Nabokov’s Works
Lara Delage-Toriel
“I speak like a child”: Orality in Nabokov
Monica Manolescu
Doubled Vision: Autoscopic Phenomena in Nabokov’s Fiction
Naomi Olson
Restoration or Regression?: The Lure of the Past in Vladimir Nabokov's Fiction
Julian Connolly
Masters and Servants: Upstairs and Downstairs in Nabokov
Galya Diment
On Pity and Courtesy in Nabokov’s Ethics
Dana Dragunoiu
Part Two: Right Way Round: Past to Future
Nabokov and Hearn: Where the Transatlantic Imagination Meets the Transpacific Imagination
Shun’ichiro Akikusa
“And If My Private Universe Scans Right…”: The Semantics Of Meter In Nabokov’s Poetry—And Worldview
Stanislav Shvabrin
In Search of the Real Poet: Nabokov’s Pushkin Essay Revisited
David Rampton
Nabokov for Those Who Hate Him: The Curious Case of Pnin
Robert Alter
“And if my private universe scans right”: “Pale Fire” and Its Creative Context
R.S. Gwynn
From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov and the Transnational Imperative
Marijeta Bozovic
Turning the Myth Upside Down: From Humbert and Lo to Hubert and Flo, or, Reading the Particulars
Yannicke Chupin
Afterword
Brian Boyd
Index