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Don, with regard to the sources you list below:
I was asked to write a blurb (if I liked it) for Vickers's book, Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. Here's what I wrote: "Chasing Lolita is eye-opening--a field-guide to some of mass culture's more corrosive absurdities. Vickers's primary focus is the cultural context and history of Nabokov's American masterpiece and its bizarre spin-offs. At the same time, Vickers negotiates the novel's linguistic complexities with critical acumen and a fine sense of Lolita's moral as well as aesthetic effects."
The piece in Poets & Writers briefly summarizes the past fifty years of commentary on Lolita. It mentions Vickers's and Nafisi's books and announces the (then) upcoming program of the Symposium on Lolita in America, which took place at The New School in NYC on September 27. The link to the Symposium Web site, which NABOKV-L previously published, is:
http://newschool.edu/lolitaconference <http://newschool.edu/lolitaconference/
I haven't yet seen the Jehlen book.
Ellen Pifer
Professor of English & Comparative Literature
English Department, 212 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Tel: 302-831-6965/Fax: 302-831-1586
E-mail: epifer@udel.edu <mailto:epifer@udel.edu>
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
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A couple of items in the ever growing volcano of Lolitology have
caught my eye lately. Does anyone have comment on them?
: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again.
http://www.curledup.com/chasloli.htm
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Sarah Weinman: "The Fifty-Year Old Fire" The Sept/Oct issue of Poets @ Writers
http://www.pw.org/content/fiftyyearold_fire
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Myra Jehlen: Five Fictions in Search of Truth. Princeton UP, 2008. It
is not clear from the ad but it appears VN is one of the writers.
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/p8794.html
Search archive with Google:
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I was asked to write a blurb (if I liked it) for Vickers's book, Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. Here's what I wrote: "Chasing Lolita is eye-opening--a field-guide to some of mass culture's more corrosive absurdities. Vickers's primary focus is the cultural context and history of Nabokov's American masterpiece and its bizarre spin-offs. At the same time, Vickers negotiates the novel's linguistic complexities with critical acumen and a fine sense of Lolita's moral as well as aesthetic effects."
The piece in Poets & Writers briefly summarizes the past fifty years of commentary on Lolita. It mentions Vickers's and Nafisi's books and announces the (then) upcoming program of the Symposium on Lolita in America, which took place at The New School in NYC on September 27. The link to the Symposium Web site, which NABOKV-L previously published, is:
http://newschool.edu/lolitaconference <http://newschool.edu/lolitaconference/
I haven't yet seen the Jehlen book.
Ellen Pifer
Professor of English & Comparative Literature
English Department, 212 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Tel: 302-831-6965/Fax: 302-831-1586
E-mail: epifer@udel.edu <mailto:epifer@udel.edu>
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
Sent: Tue 11/4/2008 3:45 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] VNbib
A couple of items in the ever growing volcano of Lolitology have
caught my eye lately. Does anyone have comment on them?
: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again.
http://www.curledup.com/chasloli.htm
-----------------------------------
Sarah Weinman: "The Fifty-Year Old Fire" The Sept/Oct issue of Poets @ Writers
http://www.pw.org/content/fiftyyearold_fire
-------------------------------------------------
Myra Jehlen: Five Fictions in Search of Truth. Princeton UP, 2008. It
is not clear from the ad but it appears VN is one of the writers.
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/p8794.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/