Galya Diment

• University of Washington

The article examines Mansfield’s attitude towards three tubercular Russian writers — Marie Bashkirtseff, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky — before and after she herself was diagnosed with the disease. The case with Chekhov was most dramatic since her bond with him, most powerful and intimate even prior to her diagnosis, became even closer but also mor...

It is hard to overestimate how huge the “Russian influence” was on both Mansfield’s craft as a short story writer and her life choices, including, even, whom she most trusted to treat her tuberculosis. Growing up in New Zealand, young Mansfield began devouring Russian books in translation. The authors she read included Marie Bashkirtseff, Leo Tolst...

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art. Ed. Stephen H. Blackwell and Kurt Johnson . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvi, 318 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Plates. Photos. Tables. Maps. $50.00, hard Bound. - Volume 76 Issue 1 - Galya Diment

By the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov and Dorothy Parker were going in opposite directions as writers. Both in their fifties (Nabokov early, Parker late), one was experiencing the most profound slump of her writing career; the other was well on his way to becoming a literary sensation. Their relationship with The New Yorker was emblematic of such po...

Galya Diment, Associate Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Washington, is the author of The Autobiographical Novel of Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf and Joyce (1994), co-editor of Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (1993). She has also written extensively on Nabokov. Her next book, Pniniade: Vladimir...

“[T]he motifs of Chernyshevski's life are now obedient to me,” Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev tells his imagined reader in Nabokov's Gift. “I have tamed its themes, they have become accustomed to my pen; with a smile I let them go: In the course of development they merely describe a circle, like a boomerang or a falcon, in order to end by returning to...

1. I could forever argue, for example, that the existence of Chekhov, Babel, or Mansfield should make it virtually impossible to suggest, as Shrayer does, that "a superb writer of short stories is likely to become a great novelist ... while a fine novelist is not necessarily equipped to write short stories" [4].

It was Morris Bishop who started the tradition of the "Nabokov at Cornell" presentations at Nabokov celebratory and tributary events. The year was 1969, Nabokov's seventieth birthday, and Alfred Appel conceived of a volume of appraisals, reminiscences, and tributes. Nabokov had been out of Cornell for ten years by then, and far away from Bishop at...

Published in 1999 to mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars offering perspectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays cover a broad range of topics and approaches, from close readings of major texts, including Speak, Memory and Pale Fire, to pen...

Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal...

Early in the nineteenth century the rapidly developing Eastern Siberian city of Irkutsk acquired the reputation of being “Siberia’s St. Petersburg.” To several Irkutsk writers who eventually made their way to the real St. Petersburg, the comparison was hardly apt. They felt that St. Petersburg’s damp winter climate compared unfavorably with the bri...

In the first paper of this series a detailed theory was presented in which the principles of hydrodynamic stability analysis were used to develop a linear perturbation equation for vertical water movement with nonsharp fronts. The second paper of the series discussed the application of this analysis to the stability of several soil water systems, s...

In an earlier paper a detailed theory was presented in which the principles of hydrodynamic stability analysis were used to develop a linear perturbation equation for vertical water movement with nonsharp fronts. In the present study the analysis is applied to the stability of several soil water systems some of which are potentially unstable. The f...

The occurrence of wetting front instability during water movement in unsaturated porous materials under certain conditions is discussed and a brief review presented of relevant stability studies. The principles of hydrodynamic stability analysis are summarized and then used in developing a linear perturbation equation for vertical water movement wi...

Since the release of Kubrick’s Lolita in 1962 and the publication of Alfred Appel’s Nabokov’s Dark Cinema in 1974, “Nabokov and Cinema” and, more narrowly, “ Lolita and Cinema,” have been common topics in both Nabokov scholarship and in teaching Nabokov courses. My interest, however, is in Nabokov and a different kind of cinema, about which very li...

Thesis (doctoral)--University of New South Wales, 1982.