Reading Vladimir Nabokov: 'Lolita'From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both Kubrick's and Lyne's film-adaptations), before considering Lolita as pornography, as lepidoptery, as film noir, and as parody. |
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An Overview | 26 |
Lolita as Pornography | 49 |
Lolita as Lepidoptery | 60 |
Lolita as film noir | 71 |
Lolita as Parody | 83 |
Bibliography | 91 |
A Note on the Author | 99 |
Humanities Ebooks | 100 |
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