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A Filthy Look at Shakespeare's Lolita
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"NOT A SINGLE OBSCENE TERM is to be found in this whole work" (4)1-so states the fictitious Dr. John Ray, Jr., and until recently I had not thought that many readers would agree. Lolita has always struck me as a stylistically lewd book, an opinion I had not regarded as an original point of view. I was, therefore, surprised by an exchange in which I participated on "Nabokv-L," the electronic mail list server. The discussion began with a relayed query concerning Chestnut Lodge, a motel in which...
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Nabokov's power hangs on 'Lolita'.(ARTS & CULTURE)(THINK PIECE)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Stefan Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Vladimir Nabokov's sensational breakout novel, Lolita, published 50 years ago this fall, not only lifted the author out of obscurity, it obscured everything he wrote before and after. Like J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield, Mr. Nabokov's
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David H.J. Lamour, ed. Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov's Prose.(Book Review)
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; David H. J. Larmour, ed. Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov's Prose. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. ix + 176 pp. Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov's Prose, edited by David Larmour, is a collection of nine critical essays dealing with the interplay of ideological structures and discursive
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'Lolita' turns 50: Special edition of Nabokov's classic released
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; LOLITA was 12 when Vladimir Nabokov brought her to life as the obsession of her stepfather, a middle-aged man who calls her "light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My soul. Lo. Lee. Ta." After three generations, readers remain relentlessly drawn to Nabokov's opening lines - more poetry than
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'Lolita,' Still The Fire of Readers' Eyes
The Washington Post
; Lolita was 12 when Vladimir Nabokov brought her to life as the obsession of the man who would become her stepfather, a middle-aged man who calls her "light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My soul. . . . Lo. Lee. Ta." After three generations, readers remain relentlessly drawn to Nabokov's
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Who's abusing Lolita now?
The Independent - London
; First the bad news: Adrian Lyne is to make a film of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita ... defines its popular identity. "Lolita" is a name employed in porn mags, prostitutes' advertisements and tabloids to denote dangerously ... to be no more than unusually elaborate bars. And now the good news: Lolita, after 40 ...
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Who's abusing Lolita now? A new film version of Nabokov's masterpiece is likely to be a travesty of the scandalous but tender original Nabokov's brilliance prepared the way for a new generation of expressionistic p rose The message of the book is that art promises everything and changes nothing
The Independent - London
; First the bad news: Adrian Lyne is to make a film of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita ... defines its popular identity. "Lolita" is a name employed in porn mags, prostitutes' advertisements and tabloids to denote dangerously ... to be no more than unusually elaborate bars. And now the good news: Lolita, after 40 ...
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The Cinematic Art of Nympholepsy: Movie Star Culture as Loser Culture in Nabokov's Lolita.(Vladimir Nabokov)(Critical Essay)
Criticism
; ... childstar. Coming from the relative obscurity of sanatorium life, Humbert shows up in America and thinks his art and the desire it maps out are in vogue. He doesn't detect the falling popularity Of the child star and the impending end of Hollywood's studio system ...
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Nabokov's genocidal and nuclear holocausts in 'Lolita.' (Vladimir Nabokov)
Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ... during his fruitless search for Lolita suggests that the reader of Lolita too might find it interesting to know what was in the news during these years. In 1947 the Manhattan Project officially came to an end and the control of America's nuclear research and ...
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A Filthy Look at Shakespeare's Lolita
Comparative Literature
; ... the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night-every night, every night-the moment I feigned sleep. (175-76) This passage ...
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NOVEL BASED ON CLASSIC `LOLITA' HAS NONE OF NABOKOV'S CREATIVITY.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Lolita, the lovely, lilting nymphet of Humbert Humbert's dreams, the love and light of his twisted life, was described by Vladimir Nabokov as a mixture of ``tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity a combination of ``naivete and deception ``blue sulks and rosy mirth an
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