Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement

Cover\nContents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgements\n1 Chaos and Order\n	On the Poetics of Urbanism\n	Bodies and Texts\n	From Chaos to Order\n	The Urban Infrastructure, or “What Lies Beneath the Asphalt of the Text?”\n	The Resurrection of Electricity\n	Buildings, Stairs, Elevators\n	The Life of Things\n	The Telephone: A Conduit to the Other World\n	The Street Advertisement\n	The Shop Window of Metatexts\n2 The Train as a New Locus of Myth Creation in Literature\n	The Topos of the Beginning\n	The Railroad as a Metaliterary Device\n	The Railroad Metaphor\n	Childhood and the Locomotive: A Model of the World\n	Toys and Reasons\n	The Station/Depot\n	The Hierarchy of Classes\n	The Existential Nature of the Journey by Rail\n	The Killing Power of the Train and Engine\n	The Train Wreck\n	Conductor to Immortality\n	The Mythology of the Train\n	The Esoteric Language of Trains\n	Train. Love. Fate\n	The Boredom of the Road\n	An Erotic Encounter\n	Violence and the Railroad\n	The Poetics of Description\n	Personification and Animation\n	Clichés: Russians and the Railroad\n	On the Road and Longing for Russia\n	Nabokov and Tsvetaeva: Synoptic Chart of a Dialog\n	The Beckoning Distance\n	Telegraph Poles\n	The View from the Train Window\n	The Underground\n3 The Automobile in the Works of Nabokov: The Semantics of Driving and the Metaliterary Process\n	Auto vs. Train\n	The Ride to School\n	The Nabokovs’ American Cars\n	Driving Experience\n	The Model\n	Car Controls (a Novel on Wheels)\n	“Crossroads of Life”: The Symbolism of Driving\n	Worlds Unknown to Each Other\n	Metaphysics of the Garage\n	The Route Through the Text\n	The Automobile in the Landscape\n	Vehicular Mimicry\n	Sex in a Car\n	An Incident on the Street\n	Forewarnings\n	The Car Accident\n	Death of the Hero\n	The Furniture Truck\n4 Symbolism of the Airplane: Breakthrough to Another Dimension\n	The Airplane Schematic\n	Flight in the Russian Periodical Press in the 1910s\n	“And the Steel Bird Will Fly”: The Airplane in Russian Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century\n	The Magic of Names\n	Insects, Birds, and Fish\n	On the Genesis and Context of Nabokov’s Poem, “The Airplane”\n	The Music of Flight\n	Flight and Performance\n	The Aesthetics of Public Death\n	Death of the Pilot\n	War in the Air\n	The Futurist Thesaurus\n	Overcoming Gravity: Hymn to the Airplane\n	Flights, Dreaming, and Waking\n	The Last Station\nBibliography\nIndex