SOURCE: “Conspicuous Construction; or, Kristeva Nabokov, and The Anti-Realist Critique,” in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 21, Nos. 2 & 3, Winter-Spring, 1988, pp. 330-39.
In the following essay, Ermarth examines the tension between reflexive and representational language in Nabokov's fiction and in the theories of Julia Kristeva, the French philosopher of language.
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