Nabokov as Translator: Passion and Precision

Nobel Lecture: Passion for precision*

In our highly complex and ever changing world it is reassuring to know that certain physical quantities can be measured and predicted with very high precision. Precision measurements have always appealed to me as one of the most beautiful aspects of physics. With better measuring tools, one can look where no one has looked before. More than once, seemingly minute differences between measurement...

Nabokov and World Literature

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

Nabokov, Teleology, and Insect Mimicry

The Translator as a Computer User

In recent years, a large amount of work has been done in the field of computational linguistics which should be of immediate interest to translators, and perhaps also to interpreters. It is the purpose of this paper to bring to the attention of professional linguists the usefulness of, and benefit to be derived from, work currently in progress in this field, and to allay the wariness and scepti...

Honour and / or / as Passion : Historical trajectories of legal defenses