Publications

1992
1992. Some Features of the Narrative Method in Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In In Honour of Professor Victor Levin: Russian Philology and History. Ed. W. Moskovich, J. Frankel, I. Serman, and S. Shvarzband. Jerusalem: Praedicta.Abstract
Included, with some revision, in the 2000 Return from the Archipelago
1991
1991. Philosophers as Poets: Reading Nabokov with Schopenhauer and Bergson. Russian Literature Triquarterly, 24, pp.185-96.
1991. A Tale Untold: Varlam Shalamov’s “A Day Off”. Studies in Short Fiction, 28, pp.1-8.
1991. Vladimir Nabokov. In Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Philip Leininger. New York: Harper-Collins, pp. 747-50.
1990
1990. Review ofD. B. Johnson, Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Poetics Today, 11, pp.703 -706.
1989
1989. Fact and Fiction in Vladimir Nabokov’s Biography of Abram Gannibal. Mosaic, 22, pp.43-56.Abstract
Russian version in Pushkinskii iubileinyi (For Pushkin’s Jubilee), ed. S. Shwarzband. Jerusalem: Praedicta, 1999, pp. 149–60.
Toker, L., 1989. Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
1989. Parallel Experience in Conrad’s Nostromo. Conradiana, 21, pp.183-202.
1989. Stories from Kolyma: The Sense of History (Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts). HSLA, 17, pp.189-220.
1988
1988. Ambiguities in Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading. In Ambiguities in Literature and Film. Ed. Hans P. Braendlin. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, pp. 95-103.Abstract
Included in the 1989 Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
1988. Nabokov’s “Torpid Smoke”. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 12, pp.239-48.
1988. Review of Joseph Brodsky’sLess than One. Southern Humanities Review, 22, pp.65-67.
1988. Tsvetaeva’s NOVOGODNEE. The Explicator, 47, pp.31-33.
1987
1987. Gamesman’s Sketches (Found in a Bottle): A Reading of Sasha Sokolov’s Between Dog and Wolf. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 21, pp.347-67.
1987. Nabokov and the Hawthorne Tradition. Scripta Hierosolymitana, 32, pp.323-49.
1987. Nabokov’s Glory: “One Example of How Metaphysics Can Fool You”. Russian Literature, 21, pp.293-312.
1987. Ted Hughes’s “Thrushes” and the Devils of Hieronymus Bosch. HSLA (Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts), 15, pp.151-64.
1986
1986. Self-Conscious Paralepsis in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Recruiting” and Pnin. Poetics Today, 7, pp.459-69.
1985
1985. A Nabokovian Character in Conrad’s Nostromo. Revue de littérature comparée, pp.15-29.
1985. Ganin in Mary-Land: A Retrospect on Nabokov’s First Novel. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 19, pp.303-13.