Scholarly Articles
by Leland de la Durantaye

“Vladimir Nabokov” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction Edited by Patrick O’Donnell, Justus Nieland and David Madden.  New York and London:  Blackwell, [Forthcoming 2009]
Review of The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames by Marina Grishakova.  Studies in the Novel.  [Forthcoming 2008]
Review of Solus Rex: Die schöne böse Welt des Vladimir Nabokov by Michael MaarNabokov Studies.  [Forthcoming 2008]

Homo profanus: Giorgio Agamben's Profane Philosophy.”  boundary 2 Volume 35, no. 3. [Forthcoming fall 2008]
“Making Cobwebs of Cables, or the Figure of Vladimir Nabokov in W.G. Sebald.” Comparative Literature Studies.

[Forthcoming 2008]
“The Artist and the Ape. On Luxuria and Lolita.” Nabokovian. Number 60. Spring 2008. 38-44.
Review of Nabokov ou la cruauté du désir: lecture psychanalytique by Maurice Couturier for NOJ (Nabokov Online Journal).  Volume II, 2008. http://etc.dal.ca/noj/current_toc_en.shtml.
"Kafka's Reality and Nabokov's Fantasy. On Dwarves, Saints, Beetles, Symbolism and Genius.Comparative Literature Fall 2007.  Volume 59, Number 4:  315-331. 

“Lolita in Lolita, or the Garden, the Gate and the Critics” Nabokov Studies 10 (2006). 175-197.
“Emendations to Annotated Editions of Lolita. The Nabokovian Number 58. Spring 2007. 6-20.

“Theologie. Die kleine, hässliche Figur im Denken Walter Benjamins.” In: Thomas Khurana / Stefanie Diekmann (Eds.): Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff. Berlin: Kadmos 2007.
The Pattern of Cruelty and the Cruelty of Pattern in Vladimir Nabokov.”
The Cambridge Quarterly 2006 35: 301-326.

“The Art of Ignorance: An Afterword to Ludwig Börne.” Harvard Review Issue 31. Fall 2006. 71-76.

“Eichmann, Empathy, and Lolita .” Philosophy and Literature 30.2 (2006) 311-328.

“Biographical Illusion and Methodological Reality. On Pierre Bourdieu's Esquisse pour une auto-analyse. Diacritics 34.2 (2006) 3-13.

“On Cynicism, Dogs, Hair, Elfriede Jelinek and the Nobel Prize.” Harvard Review Issue 29. Fall 2005. 32-39.

“The Exceptional Life of the State: Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception.” Genre. Spring/Summer 2005. 179-196.

“The Suspended Substantive. On Animals and Men in Giorgio Agamben's The Open.” Diacritics 33.2 (2005) 3-9.

“The Cratylic Impulse. Constraint and Work in the Works and Constraints of OuLiPo.” Literary Imagination Winter 2005, Volume 7, Number 1. 121-134.

“Vladimir Nabokov and Sigmund Freud, or a Particular Problem.” American Imago Volume 62, Number 1, Spring 2005, 59-73.

“The Republic of Jacques Jouet.” World Literature Today. September-December 2004. 54-62.

“Le glaive de la liberté” in Quelle Amerique? Ed. G. Katzarov. Musée d'art américain à Giverny: Paris and Giverny, 2004.

"The Materiality of Meaning" in Traveling Concepts II. Meaning, Frame and Metaphor. Joyce Goggin and Michael Burke (eds.). Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2002. 105-122.

“Agamben's Potential.” Diacritics. 30.2 (2000). 3-28.

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