Nabokov, Literature, Lepidoptera

Boyd, Brian C.

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“…Even some of Pnin's health concerns were similar to Nabokov's, given the fact that the latter got the idea for his best-known novel, Lolita as he suffered from intercostal neuralgia, during which he would be completely bedridden while Pnin learnt the principles of car-wheeling from a manual while he was experiencing back pain. 3 The episode of his embarking on a ship is one he pays special attention to when retelling it to his students, given the fact that he had to spend two whole weeks at Elis island, one of the most famous immigrant inspection stations due to his love for discussion and the extremities of his curiosity-because he took the customs clerk's questions too much to heart, as when, asked whether he was a supporter of anarchism, Pnin requested a more precise definition of the term. When he spoke about the past, Pnin would soon become so engulfed with his memories that "pear-shaped tears trickled down his tanned cheeks" (Nabokov, 1989, p. 12).…”

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“…As Paunović explained further, this form was chiefly explored by the Russian formalist school during the 1920s and the term itself is similar to the word skaska which denotes a folk tale whose essence lies in its ability to change and the fact that the 1 The websites used in this paper are given in the Reference List 2 Shoah is a Jewish word for the Holocaust. 3 As Boyd suggested in his American Years (1991), during one of his personal numerous hospital stays Nabokov thought out in detail an additional chapter he could insert between chapters 4 and 5 of Pnin: "Pnin recovering in the hospital from a sprained back teaches himself to drive a car in bed by studying a 1935 manual of automobilism found in the hospital library and manipulating the levers of his cot. .…”

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The Journey to the Centre of Uncertainty: Narrative Styles in Nabokov's Pnin

Milovanović¹

2017

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Such a devoted lepidopterist was Vladimir Nabokov that he transferred his passion onto his narrative principles as well, changing the literary devices in his works the same way a butterfly flies from one flower to another. This is especially evident in Pnin, a novel comprised of a number of vignettes and viewpoints. According to Paunović 1 , those styles include the omniscient narrator, the first person narrator and the third kind of a narrator -the one who is neither the protagonist nor the author. He also claims that the shifting perspective is deliberate and that it aims to show that the reality is not such a sure and undeniable category -Pnin has his own version of it, as well as the narrator, and it is up to the reader to choose the one he likes best, or even better, to create his own.

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The Journey to the Centre of Uncertainty: Narrative Styles in Nabokov's Pnin

Milovanović¹

2017

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Willingness to pay on cattle business insurance in supporting UPSUS SIWAB in Bangka Belitung Province

2021

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Apart from productivity problems, the implementation of beef cattle business is faced with various risks. Several risks faced by smallholder beef cattle business, such as; price, disease, feed, marketing, theft, and relationship with traders. In order to maintain the sustainability of the livestock business, breeders need a guarantee in order to continue their business. This guarantee can be in the form of livestock insurance. Cattle insurance is one of the important programs to support the livestock sector, given the important role of cattle insurance not only for breeders but for various parties. This study aims to obtain information about the willingness to pay (WTP) on cattle business insurance in Bangka Belitung Province. This research was conducted from June to October 2018 in Bangka Belitung Province. Data collection was carried out by interviewing 150 farmers as respondents as primary data. In order to strengthen this, secondary data was collected from the agricultural agency at the provincial level. The WTP value obtained shows that it is still below the value of the premium paid at this time, this indicates that farmers still want subsidies from the government for the implementation of AUTS to minimize the risk of livestock business.

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Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud

Kwon¹

2011

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Nabokov rejects systematic thinkers who engage in social and ideological generalizations. Reading Nabokov and Freud side by side, the author examines the origin of the Russian writer’s antipathy toward the psychoanalyst in three steps. First, she surveys the criticism addressing Nabokov’s views on Freud to determine if anything has been overlooked. Next, she compares Freud’s concept of screen memories to Nabokov’s childhood memories. Finally, she juxtaposes Nabokov’s art of memory, which is reflected in Lolita , and Freud’s system of remembering informing his analysis of the Wolf Man. Throughout, the author suggests how the delight Nabokov finds in both butterfly hunting and fiction writing leads him to engage in generalizations in his own way. This poet, who was also a scientist, engaged in a playful, even joyful, negation of Freud, a scientist who was also a poet. Freud, as a scientist, was compelled to generalize a theory, while Nabokov, as a poet, was ultimately unable to avoid generalizing the deceptive magic of the human psyche, art, and nature. Moreover, without the memory system to which Freud devoted his life, it would have been impossible for Nabokov to produce fiction based on a recollection of the past.

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Nabokov, Literature, Lepidoptera

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The Journey to the Centre of Uncertainty: Narrative Styles in Nabokov's Pnin

The Journey to the Centre of Uncertainty: Narrative Styles in Nabokov's Pnin

Willingness to pay on cattle business insurance in supporting UPSUS SIWAB in Bangka Belitung Province

Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud

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