Introduction
Chapter One The Speaking "I" Pinned in the Mundane and the Otherworld in Invitation to a Beheading
Ⅰ The Mundane World
Ⅱ The Otherworld
Ⅲ The Interconnection between the Mundane and the Otherworld
Ⅳ Cincmnatus the Writer VS.Nabokov the Speaking Self
Chapter Two The Speaking "I" Inscribed Between Literary "Real" and Imagination in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Ⅰ The Real and the "Real" / Imaginative
Ⅱ The Life of Sebastian Knight
Ⅲ V.'s Epiphany Through Fictional Construction
Ⅳ A Space of Mimicry Constructed for Nabokov's Speaking Self
Chapter Ⅲ The Speaking "I" Reinscribed In—between Personal Life and Impersonal Art in Speak, Memory
ⅠPast Memories Framed into Pattern of Artistic Consciousness
Ⅱ The Retum to the Textual Space in the Past
Ⅲ The Self—analysis of the Speaking "I"
Ⅳ The Practice and Creation of the Self in Exile
Conclusion
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