Publications

2003
Review ofRichard Freadman, Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will.” Partial Answers 1, no. 2 (2003): 168-72.
Nabokov’s Nikolai Gogol: Doing Things in Style.” In Nabokov at Cornell, 136-47. Ed. G. Shapiro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
2002
Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity.” In Nabokov's World, I:132-40. Ed. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin and Priscilla Meyer. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
Conspicuous Leisure and Invidious Sexuality in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.” Connotations 11, no. 2-3 (2002): 222-40.Abstract

Reprinted, with some revision, in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction

2001
Afterword (in Hebrew).” In T. S. Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Herbrew translation by Ruth Blumert, 51-59. Tel Aviv: Keshev, 2001.
A Brief History of Ekwilism.” In Critical Interfaces: Contributions in Philosophy, Literature and Culture in Honour of Herbert Grabes, 333-41. Ed. Gordon Collier, Klaus Schwank and Franz Wieselhuber. Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2001.
2000
Review of Adam Weiner,By Authors Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia.” Slavic Review 59, no. 1 (2000): 241-42.
Review of Galya Diment,Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Sceftel.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 13 (2000): 69-71.
Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist’ and Shalamov’s ‘The Artist of the Spade’: The Discourse of Lent.” In Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia, 277-91. Ed. Gennady Barabtarlo. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.Abstract

Revised and reprinted, along with the translation (by N. Strazhas) of Shalamov's "The Artist of the Spade" in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 179-190 and 191-201.

The Reversal of the Public and the Private in Tertz/Siniavsky’s Goodnight!.” Slavic Almanach 6 (2000): 84-97.
W. B. Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter”: Ironies of the Patriarchal Stance.” Connotations 9, no. 1 (2000): 100-110.
The Private Domain and the Domain of Limited Access in Nabokov’s Autobiography (in Russian).” Révue des Études Slaves 72, no. 3-4 (2000): 415-21.
Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Toker, Leona. Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
1999
К юбилею В. В. Набокова.” Вести, 1999, April 27, 7.
Review of Julian W. Connolly, ed., Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading”: A Critical Companion, and Gavriel Shapiro, Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading.” Russian Review 58, no. 4 (1999): 691-93.
‘The Dead Are Good Mixers’: Nabokov’s Version of Individualism.” In Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives, 92-108. Ed. Julian Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov’s ‘Condensed Milk’.” In Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility, 241-56. Ed. Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.Abstract

Reprinted in The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story: A Critical Companion. Ed. Lyudmila Parts. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2010, pp. 185–200.

1998
Maule’s Well and Its Metaphoric Echoes in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.” In Sounding the Depths: Water as Metaphor in North-American Literatures, 35-44. Ed. Christine Raguet-Bouvart and Gayle Wurst. Liege: University of Liege Press, 1998.
Veblen, Dickens, and Martin Chuzzlewit’s America.” Dickens Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1998): 147-57.
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”: From Self-Consciousness to Sympathy.” Connotations 7, no. 2 (1998): 181-93.

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