Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

163. Nabokov and Politics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society

Presiding: Corinne Laura Scheiner, Colorado Coll.

1. “The Real Politics of Sebastian Knight,” James J. Marino, Stanford Univ.

2. “Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Hessen: Liberalism as Personal Impenetrability,” Dana Luiza Dragunoiu, Concordia Univ.

3. “‘Obscenity Must Be Mated with Banality’: Power and Perversion in the Suburban Landscape of Lolita,” Andrew S. Reynolds, Univ. of Florida

4. “Pale Fire and Cold War Politics,” Steven Belletto, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

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