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SUMMARY:When Nabokov writes badly... The question of quality\, and laughte
 r in the dark. - Professor Eric Naiman University of California\, Berkeley
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CONTACT:Sean Durman
DESCRIPTION:Professor Eric Naiman\, the 2011 Distinguished Scholar in Mode
 rn and Medieval Languages and Literatures\,   will present a public lectur
 e drawn from his ongoing work on Nabokov\, and direct a workshop for gradu
 ate students focussing on close reading as critical practice.\n\nEric Naim
 an is Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literat
 ures at the University of California\,  Berkeley.  He is the author of  Na
 bokov\, Perversely (Cornell University Press\, 2010) and Sex in Public: Th
 e Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology. (Princeton University Press\, 1997
 ) and co-editor (with Christina Kiaer) of Everyday Life in Revolutionary R
 ussia: Taking the Revolution Inside (Bloomington: Indiana University Press
 \, 2006)  and (with Evgenii Dobrenko) of The Landscape of Stalinism: The A
 rt and Ideology of Soviet Space (Seattle: University of Washington Press\,
  2003)\, as well as many articles on gender and sexuality in Russian liter
 ature.\n\nIn Nabokov\, Perversely  Naiman argues that the sexual and the i
 nterpretive are so tightly bound together in Nabokov's fiction that the re
 ader confronts the fear that there is no stable line between good reading 
 and overreading\,.  Reading Nabokov well is beset by the exhilaration and 
 performance anxiety more frequently associated with questions of sexuality
  than of literature.   This book has been hailed by critics as  ' a well-r
 easoned and brilliant attempt to revolutionize Nabokov studies' \,  'a min
 d-bending inquiry into Nabokov s strategies for harnessing unruly bodies t
 o fuel perfect words' and 'a tour de force that will ...change the way we 
 think about how we read'.
LOCATION:Little Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue\, Cambridge
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