Issue:

№11 2021

УДК / UDK: 82-991
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-450-455

Author: Andrey A. Astvatsaturov
About the author:

Andrey A. Astvatsaturov, PhD, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb., 7–9, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0682-513X

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About the author 2:

Larisa E. Muravieva, PhD, Senior Teaching Assistant, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb., 7–9, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0411-6655 

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Abstract:

The review traces papers of the International conference V. Nabokov and Transatlantic Relations in American and European culture hosted at Saint Petersburg State University on May14–16, 2021. Scholars in various fields of humanities traced the routes of intercontinental cultural contacts of the XX-th century to construct a global context to understand Vladimir Nabokov as a paradigmatic transatlantic figure. The main direction which was discussed in papers of D. Ioffe, T. Venediktova, G. Kruzhkov, O. Panova, A. Astvatsaturov, O. Antsyferova, I. Golovacheva, A. Shvets, O. Sokolova, traditionally turned out to be American and British. The Russian cultural context viewed through the transatlantic prism was outlined by E. Penskaya, V. Feshchenko, A. Rodionova, A. Masalov, Y. Probstein, C. Bernstein and by Marjorie Perloff. The issues of transatlantic transfer in Romanesque literatures were presented in the papers of L. Muravieva, A. Petrova, V. Popova and I. Khohlova. The speakers discussed Franco-American autofiction, the images of Americans in the works of G. Apollinaire and the history of Soviet-Latin American and Portuguese-American poetic contacts, German and Scandinavian contexts viewed the in light of transatlantic problems. Discussion of Vladimir Nabokov works summed up a kind of outcome of the conference that brought together linguists (A. Kretov, Zh. Gracheva), historians of literature and culture (D. Tokarev, A. Bolshev, N. Shcherbak, A. Stepanova, N.A. Karpov ), scholars of poetics and narratology (F. Dvinyatin, V. Schmid, E. Kazartsev, D.Yu. Dovzhenko, N.I. Emelyanova).

Keywords: Nabokov, transatlantic relations, intercontinental cultural contacts, 20th century, American and European culture.
For citation:

Astvatsaturov, Andrey, and Larisa Muravieva. “Vladimir Nabokov and Transatlantic Contexts in Saint Petersburg State University.” Literature of the Americas, no. 11 (2021): 450–455. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-450-455