Nabokov (Honors Seminar)
F06
Christopher Miller
For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. —Nabokov

In this course, we take a close look at one of the best, most innovative, most influential, most cantankerous, and most atypical of modern American writers. Nabokov saw possibilities in his adoptive language that native speakers had never noticed, and beauties in his adoptive country where others saw only ugliness. Likely readings include Laughter in the Dark, The Gift, The Enchanter, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.