Nabokov's Pale Fire - The Magic of Artistic Discovery

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3(12) PART ONE THESIS: READING 15(60) Story As Discovery Foreword 17(8) Poem 25(12) Commentary 37(26) Index 63(4) Pale Fire 67(8) PART TWO ANTITHESIS: REREADING 75(52) In Search of the Story Behind Intrusions of the Real: Shade 77(12) Excursions from the Real: Kinbote 89(18) Problems: Shade and Kinbote 107(20) PART THREE SYNTHESIS: RE-REREADING 127(120) Discovery As Story Transformation 129(20) From Appalachia to Zembla: A Woman Spurned 149(24) ``Pale Fire'': Origins and Ends 173(15) ``A Poem in Four Cantos'': Sign and Design 188(19) From Zembla to Appalachia: The Contrapuntal Theme 207(26) ``Pale Fire,'' Pale Fire, pale fire: The Spiral Unwinds 233(14) Conclusion 247(16) Notes 263(28) Bibliography 291(8) Index 299