° ♡＊ Maggie M. C. Wu ＊♡ °

now,
it is already 5:30a.m.
i'm still awake in front of my computer,
for what?


because i found a useful website,
(actually, prof. kung told us this website before...)
and it exactly what i wanted~
the topic is "nabokov and modernism"
so i am really excited !!




but the only thing i dejected is...
the yale univ. did not upload the handout !!
and the page number of my lolita text is different from theirs...
(sigh)
so...
the only thing what i can do is---
to listen what he say "word by word,"
again and again,
until i catch all of his ideas = =+
god bless me~




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Lecture Description

In this guest lecture,
Teaching Fellow Andrew Goldstone provides us with some key concepts
for understanding Modernism and Nabokov's relation in particular to
his literary forebears T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust.
Positing the "knight's move" as a description of Nabokov's characteristically
indirect, evasive style, Goldstone argues that Nabokov's parodies
of Modernist form in fact reveal his deep commitment to some of the
same aesthetic principles. While the knight's move often indicates
a playful attitude towards tradition, it also betrays a traumatic
rupture with the past, reflecting a sense of exile that links Nabokov's
art with the violence of Lolita's protagonist, Humbert.