Часть текста: The absence or utter inadequacy of "references" in the atlases ad usum Delphini, the tedious perusal of the index of names enclosed with an annual volume of a monthly journal, the sheer number of these journals and volumes (in my father's library there were more than a thousand of the latter alone, representing a good hundred journals) - all this had to be overcome in order to hunt down the necessary reference, if it existed at all. Nonetheless, even in my exceptionally propitious situation things were not easy: Russia, particularly in the north, dwelt in a mist, while the local lists, scattered through the journals, totally haphazard, scanty, and cruelly inaccurate in nomenclature, only maddened me when at last I ferreted them out. My father was the preeminent entomologist of his time, and very well off to boot, but the ordinary amateur, unable to dispatch his scouts throughout Russia, and denied the opportunity - or not knowing how - to gain access to specialized collections and libraries (and an accidental boon, the hasty inspection of collections at a lepidopterological society or in the cellar of some museum, does not satisfy the true enthusiast, who needs to have the boon always at hand), had no choice but to hope for a miracle. And that miracle dawned in 1912 with the appearance of my father's four-volume work The Butterflies and Moths of the Russian Empire. Although in a hall adjoining the library dark-red cabinets contained my father's supremely rich collections, consisting of specimens complete with thoroughly accurate names, dates, and places of capture, I personally belonged to the category of curieux who, in order to acquaint themselves properly with a butterfly and to ...

2. Articles about butterflies

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Часть текста: vol. 101: p. 513) on the strength of nine males in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, which had been taken in the vicinity of Telluride half a century ago. L. sublivens is an isolated southern representative (the only known one south of northwestern Wyoming, southeast of Idaho, and east of California) of the species (the holarctic argyrognomon Berg str.=idas auct.) to which anna Edw., scudderi Edw., aster Edw., and six other nearctic subspecies belong. I bungled my family's vacation but got what I wanted. Owing to rains and floods, especially noticeable in Kansas, most of the drive from New York State to Colorado was entomologically uneventful. When reached at last, Telluride turned out to be a damp, unfrequented, but very spectacular cul-de-sac (which a prodigious rainbow straddied every evening) at the end of two converging roads, one from Placerville, the other from Dolores, both atrocious. There is one motel, the optimistic and excellent Valley View Court where my wife and I stayed, at 9,000 feet altitude, from the 3rd to the 29th of July, walking up daily to at least 12,000 feet along various more or less steep trails in search of sublivens. Once or twice Mr. Homer Reid of...

3. Butterfly collecting in Wyoming, 1952

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Часть текста: ft. alt. immediately east of Dubois along the (well-named) Wind River; western Shoshone and Teton National Forests, following admirable paved road 26, from Dubois towards Moran over Togwotee Pass (9,500 ft. alt.); near Moran, on Buffalo River, approximately 7,000 ft. alt.; traveling through the construction hell of the city of Jackson, and bearing southeast along paved 187 to The Rim (7,900 ft. alt.); and, finally, spending most of August in collecting around the altogether enchanting little town of Afton (on paved 89, along the Idaho border), approximately 7,000 ft. alt., mainly in canyons east of the town, and in various spots of Bridger National Forest, Southwestern part, along trails up to 9,000 ft. alt. Most of the material collected has gone to the Cornell University Museum; the rest to the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The best hunting grounds proved to be: the Sierra Madre at about 8,000 ft. alt., where on some forest trails I found among other things a curious form (? S. secreta dos Passos & Grey) of Speyeria egleis Bchr flying in numbers with S. atlantis hesperis Edw. and S. hydaspepurpurascensti. Edw., a very eastern locality for the latter; still better were the forests, meadows, and marshes about Togwotee Pass in the third week of July, where the generally early emergences of the season were exemplified by great quantities of Erebia theona ethda Edw. and E. callias callias Edw....

4. L. C. Higcins and N. D. Riley

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Часть текста: ago, I would quiver with helpless rage when Hofmann in his then famous Die Gross-Schmetterlinge Europas failed to figure the rarity he described in the text. No such frustration awaits the young reader of the marvelous guide to the Palaearctic butterflies west of the Russian frontier now produced by-Lionel C. Higgins, author of important papers on Lep-idoptera, and Norman D. Riley, keeper of insects at the British Museum. The exclusion of Russia is (alas) a practical necessity. Non-utilitarian science does not thrive in that sad and cagey country; the mild foreign gentleman eager to collect in the steppes will soon catch his net in a tangle of barbed wire, and to work out the distribution of Evers-mann's Orange Tip or the Edda Ringlet would have proved much harder than mapping the moon. The little maps that the Field Guide does supply for the fauna it covers seem seldom to err. I note that the range of the Twin-spot Fritillary and that of the Idas Blue are incorrectly marked, and I think Nogell's Hairstreak, which reaches Romania from the east, should have been included. Among minor shortcomings is the somewhat curt way in which British butterflies are treated (surely the Norfolk race of the Swallowtail, which is so different from the Swedish, should have received more attention). I would say that alder, rather than spruce, characterizes the habitat of Wolfens-berger's and Thor's Fritillaries. I regret that the dreadful nickname "Admiral" is used instead of the old "Admirable." The new vernacular names are well invented-- and, paradoxically, will be more attractive to the expert wishing to avoid taxonomic controversy when indicating a species than to the youngster who will lap up the Latin in a trice. The checklist of species would have been considerably more appealing if the names of authors had not been omitted (a deplorable practice of commercial origin which impairs a...

5. Nabokov: from lepidopterology to "Lolita"

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Часть текста: Lolita , Russian émigré intellectual and expert lepidopterist, is the "type specimen" of a renowned novelist with a creditable reputation as an insect taxonomist. In butterfly circles, Nabokov was a monarch. Butterflies and literature were Nabokov's twin passions. He started in 1906, aged seven, when he caught his first specimen on his family estate. A few years later, Nabokov was precocious enough to think he had found a new species, only to have his dreams dashed. Undaunted, he set out on a life of butterfly hunting, interspersed with equally passionate forays into fiction. Nabokov not only realised his dream of finding a new species; he had several named after him. He became an authority on the taxonomy of a family known as the "Blues". "It is not improbable," he said, "that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology." To him, butterflies represented a form of immortality, whereby the asexual, shuffling caterpillar transmogrified after "death" into an aerial acrobat with the sexual potency to impart a physical presence to future generations. Although not avowedly religious, Nabokov suspected a conscious design to the world and thought it likely, according to his...

6. A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths 2001 by Dieter E. Zimmer

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Часть текста: Normal mode of shipment is Economy Mail (which is not surface mail as one might suppose but air mail too; however, it may take longer than Global Premium Mail). For Global Premium shipment overseas (that is the fastest kind of air mail), a surcharge of 20 US $ will apply (rate valid as of July 1, 2001). Please do not mail me any cheque before you receive the invoice which will explain to whom it should be made payable. (If made payable to me, I would have to pay bank commissions exceeding the amount of the cheque.) Orders by e-mail or mail to the author and publisher. mail@d-e-zimmer.de Dieter E. Zimmer, Claudiusstrasse 6, D-10557 Berlin, Germany TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction (7) Why? What For? (9) - Writer and Scientist (11) - Butterflies, Not Symbols (14) - Numbers and Names (16) - What's in a Name (17) - Basic Subdivisions (18) - Clustering Animals into Taxa (20) - The Higher Taxa (24)- Sources of Incertainty (26) - The Code (28) - The Author's Name (32) - Popular Names (34) On Pronunciation (35) - The World Divided (36) - Advice to Translators (36) - The Species Concept (37) - Nabokov and Mimicry (46) Nabokov on Butterflies (61) Catalogue Sections (67) ...

7. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 1 - 2

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Часть текста: of one double unit, each containing a double bed. I wondered what type of foursome this arrangement was even intended for, since only a pharisaic parody of privacy could be attained by means of the incomplete partition dividing the cabin or room into two communicating love nests. By and by, the very possibilities that such honest promiscuity suggested (two young couples merrily swapping mates or a child shamming sleep to earwitness primal sonorities) made me bolder, and every now and then I would take a bed-and-cot or twin-bed cabin, a prison cell or paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain. We came to know nous connmes, to use a Flaubertian intonationthe stone cottages under enormous Chateaubriandesque trees, the brick unit, the adobe unit, the stucco court, on what the Tour Book of the Automobile Association describes as “shaded” or “spacious” or “landscaped” grounds. The log kind, finished in knotty pine, reminded Lo, by its golden-brown glaze, of friend-chicken bones. We held in contempt the plain whitewashed clapboard Kabins, with their faint sewerish smell or some other gloomy self-conscious stench and nothing to boast of (except “good beds”), and an unsmiling landlady always prepared to have her gift (“…well, I could give you…”) turned down. Nous connmes (this is royal fun) the would-be enticements of their repetitious namesall those Sunset Motels, U-Beam Cottages, Hillcrest Courts, Pine View Courts, Mountain View Courts, Skyline Courts, Park Plaza Courts, Green Acres, Mac’s Courts. There was sometimes a special line in the write-up, such as “Children welcome, pets allowed” ( You are welcome, you are allowed). The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless...

8. Блюмбаум Аркадий: Антиисторицизм как эстетическая позиция (К проблеме: Набоков и Бергсон)

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Часть текста: Аркадий: Антиисторицизм как эстетическая позиция (К проблеме: Набоков и Бергсон) Антиисторицизм как эстетическая позиция (К проблеме: Набоков и Бергсон) Довольно многочисленные реплики Набокова, посвященные эстетической проблематике, кажутся крайне незатейливыми, если не сказать банальными. У читателя возникает ощущение странного зазора между сложной прозой и почти тривиальными метавысказываниями писателя. На мой взгляд, этот зазор стал следствием того, что отнюдь не поскупившийся на эстетические декларации Набоков так, кажется, никогда и не проговорил, не эксплицировал основания своей весьма продуманной позиции, последовательно реализованной, воплощенной им в литературной практике. Скупо и лаконично упомянув об истоках своей эстетической точки зрения, Набоков не объяснил, чем он обязан авторам, тексты которых, несомненно, помогли Сирину ее сформулировать. В центре настоящей работы — попытка прояснить, проартикулировать основания мышления Набокова и указать на некоторые важные для понимания его творчества контексты, которые, на мой взгляд, демонстрируют всю небанальность эстетического выбора романиста. Излишним было бы добавлять, что на исчерпывающую полноту данная работа не претендует. 1 Опубликованный не так давно “берлинский” доклад Набокова “On Generalities”, датированный автором 1926 годом [Долинин 1999: 14], продемонстрировал со всей очевидностью остроту реакции молодого эмигрантского писателя Сирина на модные историцистские...

9. Роупер Р: Набоков в Америке. По дороге к «Лолите». Примечания

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Часть текста: А. Ливерганта и С. Таска. Страницы указываются по оригинальному изданию (DBDV). 2 Nabokov S Butterflies, с. 436-437. 3 Там же, с. 52. 4 “Из переписки Владимира Набокова и Эдмонда Уилсона”. Набоков относился к своим зубам на удивление равнодушно. 25 декабря 1943 г. он писал другу, Роману Гринбергу: “Дантист с треском вырвал у меня все верхние зубы. Я в продолжение месяца ходил с голым ртом, а потом старался привыкнуть к объемистому и хлюпающему ratelier (зубной протез - прим. перев .). Теперь привык - и только иногда замечаю, что собеседник украдкой вытирает то щеку, то бровь (когда слишком стремительно говорю что-нибудь) и перемигивает”. Здесь и далее письма Гринбергу цитируются по изданию: Рашит Янгиров “Друзья, бабочки и монстры: из переписки Владимира и Веры Набоковых с Романом Гринбергом. 1943-1967” // Диаспора: новые материалы. Альманах. 2001, №1. Париж, Atheneum - Спб., Феникс. 5 Pitzer, с. 173-174. Первый французский концлагерь для евреев, Дранси, появился в 1941 г. Рейс, которым уехали Набоковы, стал для “Шамплена” последним: по возвращении во Францию пароход подорвался на мине и затонул на рейде. ...

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Часть текста: категория в метапоэтике В. Набокова 1. Метапоэтический подход как основа изучения авторского самоописания в русскоязычных текстах В. Набокова Художественная практика отражает не только лингвокреативную деятельность, но и содержит попытки авторов проникнуть в суть того материала, который служит основой словесного творчества, в истоки и следствия лингвокультурной информации, заключенной в слове, в языке. Эта метаязыковая деятельность при всей ее субъективности представляет безусловный интерес для лингвистики, связывая сферу сознательного, рационального и чувственного, иррационального в указанных эвристиках (177, с. 16). Извлечение из общего текстового пространства данных о творчестве, языке, имплицитно или эксплицитно присутствующих в текстах конкретных авторов, их сопоставление и систематизация дают возможность определить адекватные способы описания и анализа художественного текста, получить объективную основу когнитивного сценария авторской самоинтерпретации. Обращение творческого сознания к самому себе отмечаем в высказывании В. Набокова: «В каждом человеке в той или иной степени противодействуют две силы: потребность в уединении и жажда общения с людьми, — которые принято называть “ интроверсией ”, то есть интересом, направленным в себя , к внутренней жизни духа и воображения , и “экстраверсией” — интересом, направленным на внешний мир людей и осязаемых ценностей» (130, с. 307). [Здесь и далее в...

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