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Hi all! I found the list of sources from my own bibliography on Pale Fire, which is very much out of date, but there is a lot here that may be useful to you. (I should also add that some of these sources were added by former students of mine, so please check the spelling and MLA format before including this information in your own work!) Please add in any sources that you have found particularly helpful. Below, I will add a section for sources on Rashomon.

 

i. Literary Criticism on Pale Fire

ii. Film Criticism on Rashomon

 

Literary Criticism on Pale Fire

 

Abraham, Lyndy. "Nabokov's Alchemical Pale Fire." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 20.2: 102-119.

 

Ackerley, Chris. "Pale Fire: Three Notes towards a Thetic Solution." Nabokov Studies 2 (1995): 87-103.

 

Alexandrov, Vladimir E., ed. The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.

 

Alter, Robert. "Autobiography as Alchemy in Pale Fire." Cycnos 10.1 (1993): 135-141.

 

Barabtarlo, Gennady. "Vanessa Atalanta and Raisa Orlova." The Nabokovian 13 (Fall 1984): 27-31.

---.  "A Mound Found in Theobald." The Nabokovian 18 (Spring 1987): 58-59.

 

Bell-Villada, Gene H. Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology & Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

 

Belletto, Steven. "The Zemblan Who Came in from the Cold, or, Nabokov's Pale Fire, Chance, and the Cold War." ELH 73.3 (2006): 755-780.

 

Berberova, Nina. "The Mechanics of Pale Fire." TriQuarterly 17 (Winter 1970): 147-159

 

Bontila, Ruxanda. "Pale Fire Countries. Parables of Exile in Vladimir Nabokov". (Ex)Patriation. A Collection of Essays. Eds. Adina Ciugureanu, Ludmila Martanovschi, Nicoleta Stanca. Constanta: Ovidius UP, 2009. 39-46.

 

Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

---. "Shade and Shape in Pale Fire." Nabokov Studies 4 (1997): 173-224.

 

Bruhm, Steven. "Queer, Queer Vladimir." American Imago 53.4 (1996): 281-306.

 

Burt, Rose. "Diversions and Deceit: Eliot, Nabokov, and the Art of Misdirection in a Speed-Reading Society." Lore 7.1 (Summer 2009): 1-9.

 

Chenoweth, Michael. "Green Eggs and Ham." The Nabokovian 28 (Spring 1992): 56-57.

---. "Query: The Color of Sneezes in Pale Fire." The Nabokovian, Spring 1992, 28, p. 57.

 

Clark, Beverly Lyon. "Kinbote's Variants in Nabokov's Pale Fire." Notes on Modern American Literature 5.3 (1981): item 18.

 

Corn, Peggy Ward. "'Combinational Delight': The Uses of Story within a Story in Pale Fire." Journal of Narrative Technique 17.1 (Winter 1987): 83- 90.

 

Cowart, David. Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

 

Crawford, Fred. D. "Nabokov's Pale Fire." Explicator 48.1 (Fall 1989): 55-56.

 

DeRewal, Tiffany and Matthew Roth. "John Shade's Duplicate Selves: An Alternate Shadean Theory of Pale Fire." Nabokov Online Journal 3 (2009):

 

Edelstein, Marilyn. "Pale Fire: The Art of Consciousness." Nabokov's Fifth Arc. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1982. 213-223.

---. "Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Preface." Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices, ed. Brian Richardson. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008. 29-43.

 

Eichelberger, Carl. "Gaming in the Lexical Playfields of Nabokov's Pale Fire." Critical Essays on Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Phyllis A. Roth. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1984. 176-184.

 

English, James F. "Modernist Joke Work: Pale Fire and the Mock Transcendance of Mockery." Contemporary Literature 33.1 (Spring 1992): 74-90.

 

Feely, Maragaret Peller. "'Warp and Weft': Patterns of Artistry in Nabokov's Pale Fire; Selected Essays." The Scope of the Fantastic: Theory, Technique, Major Authors.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. 239-245.

 

Foster, John Burt, Jr. "Not T. S. Eliot, but Proust: Revisionary Modernism in Nabokov's Pale Fire."  Comparative Literature Studies 28:1 (1991) 51- 67.

 

Galef, David: "The Self-Annihilating Artists of Pale Fire." Twentieth Century Literature 31 (1985): 421-437.

 

Haegert, John. "The Author as Reader as Nabokov: Text and Pretext in Pale Fire." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26.4 (Winter 1984): 405- 424.

 

Hennard, Martine. "Playing a Game of Worlds in Nabokov's Pale Fire." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 40.2 (Summer 1994): 299-317.

 

Isaacs, Neil. "The Riddle of/in Pale Fire." LIT 13.4 (2002): 317-332.

 

Jackson, Paul R. "Pale Fire and Sherlock Holmes." Studies in American Fiction 10.1 (Spring 1982): 101-105.

---. "Pale Fire and Faulkner." Notes on Contemporary Literature 12.3 (May 1982): 11-12.

---. "Pale Fire's Counterfeit Kings." Notes on Contemporary Literature 14.2 (March 1984): 5-7.

---. "Pale Fire and Poe's Past." The Nabokovian 21 (Fall 1988): 32-33.

---. "Pale Fire's Simplon Pass." Notes on Contemporary Literature 19.1 (Jan. 1989): 2-4.

 

Johnson, D. Barton. "The Index of Refraction in Nabokov's Pale Fire". Russian Literature TriQuarterly 16 (1979): 33-49.

---. "Word Golf and Lewis Carroll's Doublets." The Nabokovian 14 (Spring 1985): 16-20.

 

Johnson, Kurt, and Steve Coates. Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

 

Kernan, Alvin B. "The Audience Disappears in Nabokov's Pale Fire." In: Modern Critical Views: Vladimir Nabokov (ed. Harold Bloom). New York: Chelsea House, 1987, pp. 101-126

 

Knapp, Shoshana. "Hazel Ablaze: Literary License in Nabokov's Pale Fire." Essays in Literature (Macomb, IL), Spring 1987, 14:1, pp. 105-115.

 

Krueger, John R. "Nabokov's Zemblan: A Constructed Language of Fiction."Linguistics (s'Gravenhage), 32, May 1967, pp. 44-49

 

Kuzmanovich, Zoran. Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2006.

 

Larches, Colin. "A Fale Misprint in Pale Fire." The Nabokovian, Spring 1988, 20, pp. 22-23.

 

Lieber, Emma. "Having Faith in Nabokov's Pale Fire." Nabokov Studies 11 (2007/2008):

 

Lee, L[awrence] L.: "Vladimir Nabokov's Great Spiral of Being". Western Humanities Review (Salt Lake City, UT), 18, 1964, pp. 225-236

 

Lyons, John O. "Pale Fire and the Fine Art of Annotation". In: Nabokov: The Man and His Work (ed. L.S. Dembo). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967, pp. 157-164

 

Macdonald, D. L. "Eighteenth-Century Optimism as Metafiction in Pale Fire." The Nabokovian, Spring 1985, 14, pp. 26-32.

 

Macdonald, Dwight. "Virtuosity Rewarded, or Dr. Kinbote's Revenge". Partisan Review (New York), Summer 1962, pp. 437-442

 

McCarthy, Mary. "A Bolt from the Blue". The New Republic (New York), 146, Jun 4, 1962, pp. 21-27. Also in: Encounter (London), 19, Oct 1962, pp. 71-84

 

McCauley-Meyers, Janie. "Sybil and Disa in Pale Fire." The Nabokovian, Fall 1989, 23, pp. 35-39.

 

McNeil, Malcolm R. "The Poet as Clinician." The Nabokovian, Spring 1987, 18, pp. 59-61.

 

Merivale, Patricia. "The Flaunting of Artifice in Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges." Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 8.2 (Spring 1967): 294-309.

 

Meyer, Priscilla. "Etymology and Heraldry: Nabokov's Zemblan Translations: A bot on the Nabokov Escutcheon." Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Austin, TX), Winter 1987, 29:4, pp. 432-441.

---. "Igor, Ossian, and Kinbote: Nabokov's Nonfiction as Reference Library." Slavic Review (Stanford, CA), Spring 1988, 47:1, pp. 68-75.

---. Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988

---. "Pale Fire as Cultural Astrolabe: The Sagas of the North." Russian Review 47 (1988): 61-74.

---. "Reflections of Shakespeare: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire." Russian Literature Triquarterly 22 (1989), pp. 145-168.

---, and Jeff Hoffman. "Infinite Reflections in Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Danish Connection (Hans Andersen and Isak Dinesen)," Russian Literature XLI (1997), pp. 197-222.

 

Monroe, William. "The Sequestered Imagination: Nabokov versus the Materialists." Philological Quarterly (Iowa City, IA), Summer 1991, 70:3, pp. 379-394

 

Nakatani, Hitomi. "Reading Reading: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire."Studies in English Literature[Issue no. ?, 1991], pp. 61-74.

 

Nassar, Joseph. "Transformations in Exile: The Multilingual Exploits of Nabokov's Pnin and Kinbote." Visible Language 27, no. 1- 2 (1993), pp. 253-272.

 

Naumann, Marina Turkevich. "Novel Cat Connections." The Nabokovian, Spring 1989, 22, pp. 18-20.

 

O'Donnell, Patrick. "Watermark: Writing the Self in Nabokov's Pale Fire." Arizona Quarterly 39, no. 4 (Winter 1983), pp. 381-405.

---. Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986).

 

Overmeer, Roelof. "Pale Fire: The Reader's First Move." Etudes de Lettres (Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland), 1983, 1, pp. 73-78.

 

Pellerdi, Marta. "The Role of Biography and Literary Allusions in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996, pp. 103-116.

 

Peterson, Dale E. "Nabokov and the Poe-etics of Composition." The Slavic and East European Journal 33.1 (Spring 1989): 95-107.

 

Peterson, Ronald E. "Zemblan: Nabokov's Phony Scandinavian Language." Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter, Spring 1984, 12, pp. 29-37.

 

Pier, John. "Between Text and Paratext: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire". Style, 26 (1), 1992, pp. 12-32

 

Pilon, Kevin. "A Chronology of Pale Fire". Russian Literature TriQuarterly (Ann Arbor, MI), 3, 1972, pp. 370-377. Also in: A Book of Things about Vladimir Nabokov (ed. Carl Proffer). Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1974. 218-224.

 

Ramey, James. "Parasitism and Pale Fire's Camouflage: The King-bot, the Crown Jewels and the Man in the Brown Macintosh." Comparative Literature Studies 41.2 (2004): 185-213.

 

Reading, Amy. "Vulgarity's Ironist: New Criticism, Midcult, and Nabokov's Pale Fire." Arizona Quarterly 62.2 (2006): 77-98.

 

Reierstad, Keith. "Most Artistically Caged: Nabokov's Self-Inclusive Satire on Academia in Pale Fire." Studies in Contemporary Satire: A Creative and Critical Journal 5 (1978): 1-8.

 

Renaker, David. "Kinbote on Prescott." The Nabokovian, Spring 1992, 28, pp. 47- 51.

 

Rorty, Richard. "The Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty." The Ordering Mirror: Readers and Contexts. New York: Fordham UP, 1993. 198- 220.

 

Schuman, Sam. "Nabokov and Shakespeare's Trees." Note on Contemporary Literature  18.3 (May 1988: 8-10.

---. "'Comment dit-on 'mourir' en anglaise?': Translating Shakespeare in Nabokov's Pale Fire." In English Literature and the Other Languages, ed. Ton Hoenselaars & Marius Buning. Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, 1999. 167-74.

 

Schwartzmann, John. "Play, Epistemology and Change." Alice Taylor Cheska ed., Play as Context. West Point, NY: Leisure, 1981. 52-59.

 

Seidel, Michael. "Pale Fire and the Art of Narrative Supplement." ELH 51 (1984): 837-855.

---. "Stereoscope: Nabokov's Ada and Pale Fire." Modern Critical Views: Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 235-258.

 

Shapiro, Gavriel. "Nova Zembla Revisited Once Again." The Nabokovian 26 (Spring 1991): 49-51.

 

Shute, Jenefer P. "'So Nakedly Dressed': The Text of the Female Body in Nabokov's Novels." Amerikastudien/American Studies 30.4): 537-543.

 

Sicker, Philip. "Pale Fire and Lyrical Ballads: The Dynamics of Collaboration." Papers on Language and Literature , 28.3 (Summer 1992): 305- 318.

 

Smith, Herbert F. "The Topology of Pale Fire: An Analysis Based on Catastrophe Theory." In Jurak, Mirko (ed.), Cross-Cultural Studies: American, Canadian and European Literatures:1945-1985. Ljubljana: Filozofska Fakulteta, 1988. 183- 192.

 

Spariosu, Mihai. "Allegory, Power, and the Postmodern Game of Interpretation: Nabokov, Lowry, Orwell." In The Wreath of Wild Olive: Play, Liminality, and the Study of Literature. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. 

 

Sprowles, Alden. "Preliminary Annotation to Charles Kinbote's Commentary on Pale Fire". In: A Book of Things about Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Carl R. Proffer. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1974. 226-248

 

Steiner, Peter. "Zembla: A Note on Nabokov's Pale Fire." In Kenneth N. Bostrom ed., Russian Literature and American Critics: In Honor of Deming B. Brown. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1984. 265-272.

 

Stewart, Maaja A. "Nabokov's Pale Fire and Boswell's Johnson." Texas Studies in Literature and Language  30:2 (Summer 1988): 230- 245.

 

Stow, Simon. "The Return of Charles Kinbote: Nabokov on Rorty." Philosophy and Literature 23.1 (1999): 65-77.

 

Strunk, Volker. "Infinity and Missing Links in Nabokov's Pale Fire." English Studies in Canada 7.4 (Dec. 1981): 456-472.

 

Tammi, Pekka. "Pale Fire." The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov. New York: Garland, 1995. 571-586.

 

Torgovnik, Marianna. "Nabokov and His Successors: Pale Fire as a Fable for Critics in the Seventies and Eighties." Style 20:1 (Spring 1986): 22-41.

 

Voss, Manfred; Meyer, Priscilla (reply). "How Not to Read Zemblan." The Nabokovian 25 (Fall 1990): 41-49.

 

de Vries, Gerard. "Fanning the Poet's Fire: Some Remarks on Nabokov's Pale Fire." Russian Literature TriQuarterly 24 (1991): 239-27.

---. "Pale Fire and The Life of Johnson: The Case of Hodge and Mystery Lodge." The Nabokovian 26 (Spring 1991): 44-49.

---. "Nabokov’s Pale Fire, its structure and the last works of J.S. Bach." Cycnos 24.1 (20 Mar. 2008)

 

Walker, David. "'The Viewer and the View': Chance and Choice in Pale Fire." Studies in American Fiction 4 (1976): 203-21.

 

Walton, Jean. "Dissenting in an Age of Frenzied Heterosexualism: Kinbote's Transparent Closet in Nabokov's Pale Fire." College Literature 21.2 (June 1994): 89-104.

 

Welsen, Peter. "Charles Kinbote's Psychosis--A Key to Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire." In Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel (ed.), Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1989. 381-400.

 

Wilson, R.P. "Character-Worlds in Pale Fire". Studies in the Literary Imagination 23.1 (Spring 1990): 77-98.

 

Wood, Michael. "The Demons of Our Pity: Pale Fire." The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. 173-205.

 

Wright, Austin M. "Creative Plot: Pale Fire." The Formal Principle in the Novel. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982. 260-287.

 

Film Criticism on Rashomon

 

Barbarow, George. "Rashomon and the Fifth Witness." The Hudson Review 5.3 (Autumn 1952): 420-422.

 

Bovens, Luc. "Authenticity in Kurosawa." The Journal of Value Inquiry 33 (1999): 227–237.

 

Boyd, David. "Rashomon: From Akutagawa to Kurosawa." Literature/Film Quarterly 15.3 (1987): 155-158.

 

Davidson, James F. "Memory of Defeat in Japan: A Reappraisal of Rashomon." Antioch Review 14.4 (Winter 1954): 492-?

 

Goodwin, James. Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.

 

Higham, Charles. "Kurosawa's Humanism." Kenyon Review 27.4 (Autumn 1965): 737-?

 

Kamir, Orit. "Judgment by Film: Socio-Legal Functions of Rashomon." Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 12 (2000): 39-?.

 

Prince, Stephen. The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

 

Richie, Donald. "A Personal Record." Film Quarterly 14.1 (Autumn 1960): ?

---. Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa, director. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987.

--- and Joseph L. Anderson. "Traditional Theater and the Film in Japan." Film Quarterly 12.1 (Autumn 1958): ?

 

Sesonske, Alexander. "Time and Tense in Cinema." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38.4 (Summer 1980): ?

 

van Es, Robert. "Persistent Ambiguity and Moral Responsibility in Rashomon." Film and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas. Ed. Kevin L. Stoehr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.

 

Weales, Gerald. "Films from Overseas." Quarterly of Film Radio and Television 9.4 (Summer 1955): 359-?

 

Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. Durham: Duke UP, 2000.