Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Ada's ""Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre""; Chapter 2: Music in the Theater of the Mind: Opera and Vladimir Nabokov; Chapter 3: Resonances of Popular Music in Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada; Chapter 4: The Quest for a Natural Melody in the Fiction of Vladimir Nabokov; Chapter 5: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka; Chapter 6: ""Ballet Attitudes"": Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty; Chapter 7: Pninian Performatives
Chapter 8: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale FireChapter 9: European Art: A Framing Device?; Chapter 10: Nabokov and Comic Art; Chapter 11: Nabokov's Painted Parchments; Bibliography; Contributors