Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281).
Contents
Ada's Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre / D. Barton Johnson -- Music in the theater of the mind : opera and Vladimir Nabokov / Charles Nicol -- Resonances of popular music in Lolita, Pale fire and Ada / Barbara Wyllie -- Quest for a natural melody in the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov / Julian W. Connolly -- Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a beheading and Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka / Nassim W. Balestrini -- Ballet attitudes : Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The sleeping beauty / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Pninian performatives / Masha Raskolnikov -- Alexander Pope's The rape of the lock and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale fire / Lisa Zunshine -- European art : a framing device? / Christine Raguet-Bouvart -- Nabokov and comic art / Gavriel Shapiro -- Nabokov's painted parchments / Ralph A. Ciancio.