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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita : A Casebook

By Ellen Pifer

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Year
2002
ISBN
9780199726998, 9780195150339
LCC
PS3527.A15 .V533 2003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9901687 bytes)
Series
Casebooks in Criticism Series
Pages
218\218
Time added
2023-08-21 15:45:42
NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich,-1899-1977.-Lolita.

Description

Midway through the last century, Lolita burst on the literary scene--a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject--the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a twelve-year-old American girl--was quickly upstaged by the critical attention it received from readers, scholars, and critics around the world. This casebook gathers together an interview with Nabokov as well as nine critical essays about Lolita. The essays follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features and then proceeding to broader topics and cultural implications, including the novel's relations to other works of literature and art and the movies adapted from it.

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