Nabokov's Secret Trees

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By Stephen H. Blackwell

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This book explores how Vladimir Nabokov wove his deep love of trees throughout all his works, granting them a powerful role in the development of his most significant themes.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Nabokov’s Origins in the Poetry of Trees
2. Trees on the Mind: Consciousness and Memory
3. Twigs, Shadows, and the Ramifications of Art
4. "Knowledge-Amplified Love": Trees and Epistemology in Nabokov’s Worlds
5. Trees in the Frame: Art about Art about Trees
6. Ada’s Trees

Epilogue: In and Out of the Pines

Appendices

Nabokov’s Invented Trees
All of Nabokov’s Trees, in Images
Lists of Trees in Nabokov’s Works
Poems, by Year
Novels and Stories
List of Trees and Shrubs Mentioned in the Works of Shakespeare
Notes
Bibliography