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9780873529433 Academic Inspection Copy

Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita

  • ISBN-13: 9780873529433
  • Publisher: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
    Imprint: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
  • Edited by Zoran Kuzmanovich
  • Price: AUD $85.99
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  • Local release date: 29/04/2008
  • Format: Paperback (223.00mm X 149.00mm) 190 pages Weight: 293g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Widely considered one of the twentieth century's great novels, Lolita maintains an established place on the syllabus--in English departments, Russian and Slavic departments, and departments of comparative literature. Yet its particular mix of narrative strategies, ornate allusive prose, and troublesome subject matter complicates its presentation to students. This volume aims to help instructors make Lolita accessible to students. Part 1, "Materials," opens with an extensive chronology of the author's life, outlines the novel's convoluted publication history, and identifies useful textual and audiovisual resources for teaching Lolita. In part 2, "Approaches," instructors reflect on the best ways to illuminate the novel's ethical quandries and introduce its textual intricacies. The twenty-two essays are grouped by three themes: instructors' experiences teaching Lolita in specific courses; the literary, generic, and cultural contexts of the novel, including its Russian roots, Romantic tropes and themes, and representation of 1950s American culture; and the theoretical approaches to the novel, which address ethics and aesthetics, the role of readers, and the connection between the author and the narrator.
Zoran Kuzmanovich is Professor and Chair of English at Davidson College. He is also editor of Nabokov Studies Galya Diment is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Washington.
This collection, edited by Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment, contains a series of articles by many prominent Nabokov scholars, and perhaps achieves its purported aim of demonstrating how 'Lolita is pursued through various pedagogical, ideological, cultural, and critical tools and angles.' ...This collection stands... as an admirable attempt to offer a diverse range of pedagogical perspectives within a very limited space." -Slavonic and East European Review
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