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Tables of Contents for Nabokov's Pale Fire
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
12
PART ONE THESIS: READING
15
60
Story As Discovery
Foreword
17
8
Poem
25
12
Commentary
37
26
Index
63
4
Pale Fire
67
8
PART TWO ANTITHESIS: REREADING
75
52
In Search of the Story Behind
Intrusions of the Real: Shade
77
12
Excursions from the Real: Kinbote
89
18
Problems: Shade and Kinbote
107
20
PART THREE SYNTHESIS: RE-REREADING
127
120
Discovery As Story
Transformation
129
20
From Appalachia to Zembla: A Woman Spurned
149
24
``Pale Fire'': Origins and Ends
173
15
``A Poem in Four Cantos'': Sign and Design
188
19
From Zembla to Appalachia: The Contrapuntal Theme
207
26
``Pale Fire,'' Pale Fire, pale fire: The Spiral Unwinds
233
14
Conclusion
247
16
Notes
263
28
Bibliography
291
8
Index
299