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From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: NEW. LOLITA CASEBOOK, ed. Ellen Pifer
> EDNOTE: Ellen Pifer is a former president of the International Vladimir
> Nabokov Society and the author of the ground-breaking NABOKOV AND THE
NOVEL
> (Cambridge: Havard U.P.1980). Table of Contents below
> -----
>
> _Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA_
> A Casebook
>
> Edited by ELLEN PIFER
>
> 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 issues and
> cultural implications, including the novel's relations to other works of
> literature and art and the movies adapted from it.
>
> Casebooks in Criticism)
> 2002 224 pp.
> 515033-3 paper $17.95/$14.35
> 515032-5 cloth $39.95/$31.95
> Order now and save 20%!
----------------------------------------------
Introduction
The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov's Lolita: Nomi Tamir-Ghez
Parody and Authenticity in Lolita: Thomas R. Frosch
"Even Homais Nods": Nabokov's Fallibility, or How to Revise Lolita: Bryan
Boyd
Nabokov's Novel Offspring: Lolita and Her Kin: Ellen Pifer
"So Nakedly Dressed": The Text of the Female Body in Nabokov's Novels:
Jenefer Shute
"Ballet Attitudes": Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty:
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Artist in Exile: The Americanization of Humbert Humbert: John Haegert
Lolita and the Poetry of Advertising: Rachel Bowlby
Revisiting Lolita [on film]: Michael Wood
Interview with Vladimir Nabokov: Herbert Gold
> Promo# 23214
>
From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: NEW. LOLITA CASEBOOK, ed. Ellen Pifer
> EDNOTE: Ellen Pifer is a former president of the International Vladimir
> Nabokov Society and the author of the ground-breaking NABOKOV AND THE
NOVEL
> (Cambridge: Havard U.P.1980). Table of Contents below
> -----
>
> _Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA_
> A Casebook
>
> Edited by ELLEN PIFER
>
> 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 issues and
> cultural implications, including the novel's relations to other works of
> literature and art and the movies adapted from it.
>
> Casebooks in Criticism)
> 2002 224 pp.
> 515033-3 paper $17.95/$14.35
> 515032-5 cloth $39.95/$31.95
> Order now and save 20%!
----------------------------------------------
Introduction
The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov's Lolita: Nomi Tamir-Ghez
Parody and Authenticity in Lolita: Thomas R. Frosch
"Even Homais Nods": Nabokov's Fallibility, or How to Revise Lolita: Bryan
Boyd
Nabokov's Novel Offspring: Lolita and Her Kin: Ellen Pifer
"So Nakedly Dressed": The Text of the Female Body in Nabokov's Novels:
Jenefer Shute
"Ballet Attitudes": Nabokov's Lolita and Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty:
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Artist in Exile: The Americanization of Humbert Humbert: John Haegert
Lolita and the Poetry of Advertising: Rachel Bowlby
Revisiting Lolita [on film]: Michael Wood
Interview with Vladimir Nabokov: Herbert Gold
> Promo# 23214
>