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Lolita / editor, Rachel Stauffer, Ferrum College, Virginia.
EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection Available online
EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich).
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Child sexual abuse in literature.
- Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages).
- Other Title:
- Critical Insights
- Place of Publication:
- Salem Press
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
- Summary:
- Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a 37-year-old literary scholar passionately in love with his 12-year-old stepdaughter. This compilation of critical essays examines the controversy behind the novel's reception, Humbert Humbert's role as an unreliable narrator, connections to Nabokov's other works, and comparisons to the 1962 film adaptation.
- Contents:
- About this volume / Rachel Stauffer
- On Lolita / Rachel Stauffer
- Nabokov's biography / Julian W. Connolly
- Nineteenth-century Russian literature and the shaping of Lolita / Sara Dickinson
- Still intrigued with Lolita : Nabokov's visionary work on child sexual abuse / Lucia C.A. Williams
- Anatomizing male sexuality : G. Ivanov, Nabokov, Pelevin / Alexei Lalo
- A salad of racial genes : Rilke as a possible target of Lolita / Thomas Seifrid
- Lolita and the genre of literary doubles : does Quilty exist? / Priscilla Meyer
- Lolita and its three utilitarians : Humbert Humbert, Chernyshevsky, and Nabokov / Inna Kapilevich
- Scratch Lolita, find the martyr-heroine or the Russian origins of nymphetology / Natalia Dame
- Against ocularcentrism : Lolita re-envisioned / Rebecca Freeh-Maciorowski
- Fictional revisions in Lolita / Lyndsay Miller
- The sweet game of anesthesia : Nabokov's playful conditioning strategies in Lolita / Michael Federspiel
- Rabbit-like fear response in Lolita : Humbert Humbert as predator and Dolores Haze as prey / Rachel Stauffer
- A garden and a twilight and a palace gate : Lolita outside Humbert's control / Kirsten Rutsala
- The evanescent fountain of youth : the 'Lolita'-mega-metaphor in Vladimir Nabokov's novels / Ljuba Tarvi
- Chronology of Vladimir Nabokov's life
- Additional works by Vladimir Nabokov.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781619258471
- 1619258471
- OCLC:
- 965413983
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