Nabokov & Cultural Synthesis Reader! Welcome to the Nabokov pages of Wesleyan University. This is a meeting place for past, present, and future participants in the course Nabokov and Cultural Synthesis which is offered every second year. It provides links to major sources of information for the Nabokov enthusiast as well as announcements of relevant current events. The spiralling outward of relevant sources is potentially infinite; we limit our links to English literature and Russian literature as Nabokov's principle thesis and antithesis yielding the cultural synthesis his oeuvre represents.

Course materials
           Syllabus, schedule

Class list
 

Guidelines

            How to write a motif study, a subtext analysis, a peer review.

Motif bank

Over the years we will collectively create a motif bank, posting occurrences of a motif, its contexts with page numbers,
and our interpretations of its use.

Key poems, in literal translation where necessary, listed by language.

Student papers

Onegin parodies

A regular assignment in the course is to write a paraphrastic translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegininto contemporary America.
Anyone is welcome to submit one.

Nabokov and Cultural Synthesis offers an annual Grainball Prize to the best hypothesis explaining the Rita passages in Lolita.
Address any queries and/or submissions to Priscilla Meyer.

PMeyer's home page