Article: Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery.(Review)

Article: Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of ...
Studies in the Novel;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Brian Boyd's Nabokov's "Pale Fire ": The Magic of Artistic Discovery. His analysis is particularly ... this book is all about Pale Fire and the artistic genius behind ... appropriate to a text like Pale Fire, which contains layer after ...

Article: The Novel of the Century: Nabokov's Pale ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  December 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... delirious, devotional study, Nabokov's Pale Fire (Princeton University Press). And ... Novel of the Century goes to Nabokov's Pale Fire, with Ulysses and Shadows on the Hudson ... the bronze. The Judge's Rationale: Pale Fire is the most Shakespearean work of art ...

Article: Coetzee's NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE AND THE PRIMACY OF ...
The Explicator;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Charles Kinbote on poet John Shade in Pale Fire (26) Kernan reminds us that Nabokov ... to interpret and validate" (107). Pale Fire beats critics at their own games, predicting ... seemingly invulnerable to criticism. Pale Fire is a monument to anticritical practice ...

Article: Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic Art of Discovery. ...
The Antioch Review;  June 22, 2002 ;     669 words ...Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic Art of Discovery by Brian ... paper). In Nabokov's satirical novel Pale Fire a poem by a murdered American author ... several critics to argue that the whole of Pale Fire was written by one deceptive meta ...

Article: Vulgarity's Ironist: New Criticism, Midcult, and Nabokov's ...
The Arizona Quarterly;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 1962, the year Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and Stanley Kubrick's film version ... highbrow status. Newsweek's evaluation of Pale Fire concorded with Mary McCarthy's awestruck ... one's place in society? As such, Pale Fire functioned as a weathervane for the prevailing ...

Article: Dissenting in an age of frenzied heterosexualism: Kinbote's ...
College Literature;  June 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... s 1962 review of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire typifies the way in which "homosexuality ... seems to be suggesting is that, though Pale Fire is mediated by an explicitly gay narrator ... and "frantic heterosexualism" in Pale Fire is not, in Kermode's account, to ...

Encyclopedia entry: Pale Fire
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      399 words ...Pale Fire, novel by Nabokov , published in 1962. An unfinished poem of 999 lines of heroic couplets, titled Pale Fire , by JohnShade is the subject of an inept but lengthy exegesis of 160 pages by Charles Kinbote. Although ostensibly a literary ...