Introduction 1
Part One Nabokov's Experiments as an American Modernist Novelist 21
Chapter One A Modernist Pilgrim:Russia-London-Paris-Berlin-America 27
Chapter Two Search of the"Dead Soul" 32
Chapter Three Narrative in Bend Sinister 41
Chapter Four Parody as a Springboard in Lolita 50
Chapter Five Memory,Imagination,Time and Space in Speak,Memory 57
Part Two Nabokov's New Stage:from Modernism to Postmodernism 67
Chapter One Postmodernism in the Unite States Since 1961 69
Chapter Two Comic Human Pain in Pnin 75
Chapter Three Indeterminacy,Intertextuality and Wordplay in Pale Fire 83
Chapter Four The Mixture of Imagination and Science Fiction:Ada 103
Chapter Five Historiographic Metafiction:Transparent Things and Look at the Harlequins! 113
Conclusion 127
Works Cited 138
附录一 145
后记 148
Index 149