The rise of the memoir / by Zwerdling, Alex

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Modern short stories; the uses of imagination /

Autumn light : illuminations of age /

Russian eyes on American literature /

Table of Contents: “…(cont) The tower and around : a view of Vladimir Nabokov / Nikolai Anastasiev -- Character in American fiction / Tatiana Morozova -- In search of community : the individual and society in the new American novel / Tamara Denisova -- The Soviet view of American feminism with a side look at our native antifeminism / Maya Tugusheva -- Neoconservatism and American literature of the 1980s / Alexandr Muliarchik -- The prose of the 1980s : three new names / Aleksei Zverev.…”

The speech-gesture complex : modernism, theatre, cinema / by Paraskeva, Anthony

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The economics of fantasy : rape in twentieth-century literature / by Stockton, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Consumer Fetishism and the Violence of the Gaze: Vladimir Nabokov and D.M. Thomas -- Chapter 6. The Disappearing Female Body and the New Worker: John Barth, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Nicholson Baker, and Thomas Pynchon -- Chapter 7. …”
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Secret sharers : the intimate rivalries of modernism and psychoanalysis / by Spitzer, Jennifer

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The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam / by Piette, Adam

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The Goalkeeper.

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Reader as accomplice : narrative ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov / by Spektor, Alexander

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Modern short stories : the uses of imagination /

The secret life of our times: new fiction from Esquire. by Lish, Gordon

The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction / by Worthington, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. …”

Love, a celebration in art and literature /

Framing literary humour : cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment / by Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne

Jouer Sa Vie en Jouant Aux échecs. Essai Sur la Symbolique du Jeu d'échecs Dans la Littérature, l'art, la Poésie et le Cinéma. by Vaillancourt, Yves

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Préface -- Introduction -- Une origine sacrificielle -- Quelques règles des échecs à la façon d'un maître : Borges -- La folie et la sérénité -- The Queen's Gambit -- Le Joueur d'échecs (Stefan Zweig) -- La Défense Loujine (Vladimir Nabokov) -- Jouer sa vie -- Marcel Duchamp -- L'ataraxie de Fernando Pessoa -- Les mobiles du crime -- Le Tableau du Maître flamand -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Le Golem (Gustav Meyrink) -- « L'Assassin des échecs » -- Quand la Ville devient un échiquier -- Le jeu qui rend immortel -- Échecs et alchimie -- L'absolu -- Ingmar Bergman…”
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The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction / by Worthington, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. …”
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Andrey Bely's Petersburg : a centennial celebration /

Table of Contents: “…On Petersburg / Vladimir Nabokov -- Introduction / Olga M. Cooke -- Bely's Petersburg and the end of the Russian novel / Carol Anschuetz -- Andrei Bely's astral novel: a theosophical reading of Petersburg / Maria Carlson -- Synesthesia as apocalypse in Andrey Bely's Petersburg / Charlene Castellano -- Kinship and figure in Andrey Bely's Petersburg / Jacob Emery -- Metafiction in Andrey Bely's novel Petersburg / Roger Keys -- Petersburg as a historical novel / Timothy Langen -- Andrey Bely between Conrad and Chesterton Aleksandr V. …”
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The golden age of the American essay : 1945-1970 /

The etiquette of good writing : why Nabokov is wine, and Joyce is a feral brew.

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