Stephen H Blackwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen H Blackwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen H |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwell |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWELL S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9349-9266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Calendar Anomalies, Pushkin and Aesthetic Love in Nabokov
This study begins from the controversial date-counting puzzle in Lolita , and links it to calendric phenomena in Pnin and Pale Fire. The three novels are joined by their hidden use of Pushkinian dates and ambiguous calendars; Nabokov appears to connect this ambiguity specifically with Pushkin and with his works’ embodiment of artistic openness. Pushkin's major role in these novels (latent in two of them) is then traced to Nabokov's early lectures…
Nabokov’s The Gift , Dostoevskii, and the Tradition of Narratorial Ambiguity
Sometimes, we don’t know what a thing is. Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Gift , in Chapter Two describes some witch doctors collecting “Chinese rhubarb, whose root bears an extraordinary resemblance to a caterpillar, right down to its prolegs and spiracles—while I, in the meantime, found under a stone the caterpillar of an unknown moth, which represented not in a general way but with absolute concreten…
British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
1. Introduction: Jordan, Suez and the Decline of British Influence in the Middle East 2. Glubb's Jordan: The Arab Legion, the Hashemites and the Nationalist Challenge, 1948-1956 3. Amman under the Shadow of Nasser: Jordanian Nationalism and the Suez Crisis, April - November 1956 4. The British Abandonment and the American Retrieval of Jordan, November 1956-April 1957 5. The Kings against the Colonels: Jordan and the Anglo-American Plot to Overthr…
The Models of Space, Time, and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
Nabokov's dictum on the merging of "the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science" in a work of art has been often cited.Somehow it's always seemed familiar to me: I was lucky enough to learn from people who appreciated the precision of poetry and the aesthetical bliss of scientific adventure.I'm speaking of an informal circle of scholars later called the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school: Yuri Lotman, Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, E…
Einstein and Soviet Ideology
The Poetics of Science in, and around, Nabokov's The Gift
Zina's Paradox
Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction
Nabokov and His Fiction
Boundaries of Art in Nabokov'sThe Gift
The author's actual creative act always proceeds along the boundaries of the aesthetic world, along the boundaries of the reality of the given, along the boundary of the body and the boundary of the spirit.-M. M. BakhtinThe spirit finds loopholes, transluscences in the world's finest texture.-V. V. Nabokov, "How I Love You"Are boundaries real? This, to a certain extent, is the central question posed byThe Giftwhen Fyodor suggests that "definition…
The Models of Space, Time, and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
Nabokov's dictum on the merging of "the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science" in a work of art has been often cited.Somehow it's always seemed familiar to me: I was lucky enough to learn from people who appreciated the precision of poetry and the aesthetical bliss of scientific adventure.I'm speaking of an informal circle of scholars later called the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school: Yuri Lotman, Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, E…
Calendar Anomalies, Pushkin and Aesthetic Love in Nabokov
This study begins from the controversial date-counting puzzle in Lolita , and links it to calendric phenomena in Pnin and Pale Fire. The three novels are joined by their hidden use of Pushkinian dates and ambiguous calendars; Nabokov appears to connect this ambiguity specifically with Pushkin and with his works’ embodiment of artistic openness. Pushkin's major role in these novels (latent in two of them) is then traced to Nabokov's early lectures…
Boundaries of Art in Nabokov'sThe Gift
The author's actual creative act always proceeds along the boundaries of the aesthetic world, along the boundaries of the reality of the given, along the boundary of the body and the boundary of the spirit.-M. M. BakhtinThe spirit finds loopholes, transluscences in the world's finest texture.-V. V. Nabokov, "How I Love You"Are boundaries real? This, to a certain extent, is the central question posed byThe Giftwhen Fyodor suggests that "definition…
Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction
Nabokov and His Fiction
Zina's Paradox
Einstein and Soviet Ideology
The Poetics of Science in, and around, Nabokov's The Gift
The Models of Space, Time, and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
Nabokov's dictum on the merging of "the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science" in a work of art has been often cited.Somehow it's always seemed familiar to me: I was lucky enough to learn from people who appreciated the precision of poetry and the aesthetical bliss of scientific adventure.I'm speaking of an informal circle of scholars later called the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school: Yuri Lotman, Boris Uspensky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, E…
British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
1. Introduction: Jordan, Suez and the Decline of British Influence in the Middle East 2. Glubb's Jordan: The Arab Legion, the Hashemites and the Nationalist Challenge, 1948-1956 3. Amman under the Shadow of Nasser: Jordanian Nationalism and the Suez Crisis, April - November 1956 4. The British Abandonment and the American Retrieval of Jordan, November 1956-April 1957 5. The Kings against the Colonels: Jordan and the Anglo-American Plot to Overthr…
Nabokov’s The Gift , Dostoevskii, and the Tradition of Narratorial Ambiguity
Sometimes, we don’t know what a thing is. Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Gift , in Chapter Two describes some witch doctors collecting “Chinese rhubarb, whose root bears an extraordinary resemblance to a caterpillar, right down to its prolegs and spiracles—while I, in the meantime, found under a stone the caterpillar of an unknown moth, which represented not in a general way but with absolute concreten…
Calendar Anomalies, Pushkin and Aesthetic Love in Nabokov
This study begins from the controversial date-counting puzzle in Lolita , and links it to calendric phenomena in Pnin and Pale Fire. The three novels are joined by their hidden use of Pushkinian dates and ambiguous calendars; Nabokov appears to connect this ambiguity specifically with Pushkin and with his works’ embodiment of artistic openness. Pushkin's major role in these novels (latent in two of them) is then traced to Nabokov's early lectures…
Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (8 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · European Linguistics and Anthropology (3 works) · Law (3 works)