Vladimir Nabokov, A Bibliography of Criticism
by Dieter E. Zimmer
with additions by Jeff Edmunds

Anderson, Terry P.: A Formal Analysis of the Theme of Art in Nabokov's Russian Novels. McGill University, Ph.D. 1974

Anonymous: "Bluffs and Blindfolds: Nabokov's First Novel". Times Literary Supplement (London), 26 February 1971, p. 233

Aikhenvald, Iulii: "Literaturnyia Zametki" [Review of Mashenka e.a.]. Rul' (Berlin), 31 March 1926, p. 2-3

Böhmig, Michaela: Das russische Theater in Berlin. München: Sagner, 1990

Boyd, Brian: Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 245-250

Buhks, Nora. "Zvuki i zapakhi. O romane V. Nabokova Mashen'ka," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (Moscow), no. 17, 1996, pp. 296-317.

Clancy, Laurie: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. London: Macmillan Press, 1984, pp. 21-25

Field, Andrew: Nabokov: His Life in Art. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1967

Foster, Jr., John Burt: Memory as Muse: Shifting Points of Reference for Nabokov's Autobiographical Impuls. [Paper delivered at the MLA Annual Meeting, New York, December 1983. Abstract in: The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter (Lawrence, KS), 12, Spring 1984, pp. 41-43]

Foster, Ludmila A.: "Nabokov in Russian Emigré Criticism". Russian Literature TriQuarterly (Ann Arbor, MI), 3, 1972, pp. 330-341

Gordon, David J.: "Some Recent Novels: Connoisseurs of Chaos". The Yale Review (New Haven, CT), 60 (3), Spring 1971, pp. 428-437

Isahaya, Yuichi. "Ganin no kessin -- Mashen'ka no ketsumatsu o megutte." ["Ganin's Decision: about the Denoument of Nabokov's Mary."] In Doshisha daigaku gaikoku bungaku kenkyu [Doshisha Studies in Foreign Literature], 76 (January, 1997) pp. 19-39. In Japanese.

Kinbote, Charles. "Mashen'ka." Zembla, September, 1996.

Laursen, Eric. "Memory in Nabokov's Mary," Russian Review, 1 (January 1996), pp. 55-64.

Lee, L[awrence] L.: Vladimir Nabokov. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 266). Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1976, pp. 34-38

Levin, Ju.: "Zametki o Masen'ke V.V. Nabokova". Russian Literature (Amsterdam), 18 (1), 1985, pp. 31-42

Long, Michael: Marvell, Nabokov: Childhood and Arcadia. Oxford University Press (London), 1984, pp. 23-26

Nakata, Akiko. "Repetition and Ambiguity in Mary" (in Japanese). Chubu American Literature (The American Literature Society of Japan, Chubu Branch), 2 (1999), pp. 31-45.

Nakata, Akiko. "Repetition and Ambiguity: Reconsidering Mary." (Updated version in English of the previous entry.) Zembla, 8/12/05.

Nakata, Akiko. "Angels on the Planks: The Workmen in the Two Scenes in Mary." The Nabokovian, Spring 1999, 42, 25-26.

Naumann, Marina: "The Poetry of Nabokov's Prose: Mashenka Revisited". Melbourne Slavonic Studies (Melbourne), 13, 1978, pp. 71-81

Nicol, Charles: "Advice to the Emigration: Didacticism in Mary and Glory". [Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of AATSEEL, December 1983. Abstract in: Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter (Lawrence, KS), 13, Fall 1984, p. 18-19]

O'Hara, J.D.: "The Tamara Theme". [Paper presented at the meeting of the Nabokov Society, Houston, December 29, 1980]

Osorgin, Mikhail: [Review of Mashenka]. Sovremennye Zapiski (Paris), 28, 1926, pp. 474-476. Reprinted in: Critical Essays on Vladimir Nabokov (ed. Phyllis A. Roth). Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1984, pp. 43-45

Parker, Stephen Jan: Understanding Nabokov. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1987, pp. 27-32

Roth, Phyllis A.: Lunatics, Lovers, and a Poet: A Study od Doubling and the Doppelgänger in the Novels of Nabokov. University of Connecticut, Ph.D. 1972

Shipe, Timothy: "Nabokov's Metanovel". (Paper presented at the meeting of the Nabokov Society, Houston, 29 December, 1980)

Sicker, P.: "Practicing Nostalgia: Time and Memory in Nabokov's Early Russian Fiction". Studies in Twentieth Century Literature (Manhattan, KS), 11 (2), 1987, pp. 253-270

Slonim, Marc: "An Early Act of Memory and Imagination". New York Times Book Review, 25 October 1970, pp. 4, 66

Struve, Gleb: [Review of Mashen'ka]. Vozrozhdenie (Paris), 1 April 1926, p. 3

Struve, Gleb: [On Sirin]. Slavonic and East European Review, 1934, pp. 436-444. Reprinted in: Nabokov: The Critical Heritage (ed. Norman Page). London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, pp. 47-56

Struve, Gleb: "Notes on Nabokov as a Russian Writer". Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature (Madison, WI), 8 (2), Spring 1967, pp. 153-164

Struve, Gleb: "Nabokov's Mashen'ka". Times Literary Supplement (London), 16 April 1971, p. 449

Tiedeken, Richard: Memory Pattern as Thematic Idea and Structural Principle in the Autobiographical and Selected Fictional Prose of Vladimir Nabokov. Cornell University, Ph.D. 1977

Toker, Leona: "Ganin in Mary-Land: A Retrospect on Nabokov's First Novel". Canadian-American Slavic Studies (Vancouver, British Columbia), 19 (3), Fall 1985, pp. 306-313

Toker, Leona: Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. Slightly revised version of the previous entry, and reprinted as "Mary: 'Without Any Passport'" in Zembla, October 1996.

Urban, Thomas: "Berlin, Zuflucht russischer Literaten: Vladislav Chodasevic, Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolaj El'jasev". In: West-Östliche Spiegelungen (ed. Lew Kopelew), Reihe B, Sonderband Deutsche und Deutschland in der russischen Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts. München: Fink, 1988, pp. 59-93

Williams, Robert C.: "Memory's Defense: The Real Life of Vladimir Nabokov's Berlin". The Yale Review (New Haven, CT), 60 (2), Winter 1971, pp. 241-250

Zimmer, Dieter E.: "Mary". In: The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov), New York: Garland, 1995, pp. 346-358