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Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era

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 2021

Summary

Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate studentsin the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond, how do we approach Nabokov’s inflammatory masterpiece, Lolita? How do we read a novel that describes an unpardonable crime? How do we balance analysis of Lolita’s brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? This student-focused volume offers practical and specific answers to these questions and includes suggestions for teaching the novel in conventional and online modalities. Distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered nature of Lolita by sharing innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, methodologies of teaching the novel through film and theatre, and new critical analyses and interpretations.

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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2838-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2839-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
    1. 1 (How) Should a Feminist Teach Lolita in the Wake of #MeToo? No access
    2. 2 Why I Teach Lolita No access
    1. 3 Students’ Lolita Jury Duty No access
    2. 4 A Requiem for Dolores No access
    3. 5 Teaching Lolita in the Department of Drama No access
    4. 6 Three Lolitas No access
    5. 7 Dolores Haze No access
    6. 8 Nabokov and #MeToo No access
    7. 9 Resisting Humbert’s Rhetorical Appeals No access
    8. 10 Reading Lolita as a Teenage Girl No access
  2. Index No access Pages 181 - 182
  3. About the Editor No access Pages 183 - 184
  4. About the Contributors No access Pages 185 - 187

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