Acknowledgments.....................................................xi Introduction.........................................................3 PART ONE · THESIS: READING Story as Discovery.................15 1. Foreword.....................................................17 2. Poem.........................................................25 3. Commentary...................................................37 4. Index........................................................63 5. Pale Fire....................................................67 PART TWO · ANTITHESIS: REREADING In Search of the Story Behind..............................................................75 6. Intrusions of the Real: Shade................................77 7. Excursions from the Real: Kinbote............................89 8. Problems: Shade and Kinbote.................................107 PART THREE · SYNTHESIS: RE-REREADING Discovery as Story......127 9. Transformation..............................................129 10. From Appalachia to Zembla: A Woman Spurned.................149 11. "Pale Fire": Origins and Ends............................. ... read full excerpt from: Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery ebook