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From: Akiko Nakata <akikonakata@email.msn.com>
This could be some help. Frederick Whiting discusses _Lolita_ and Cold War
in his "'The Strange Particularity of the Lover's Preference': Pedophilia,
Pornography and the Anatomy of Monstrosity in _Lolita_" in _American
Literature_ Dec. 1998. He writes: "Considered in this light, the
novel[_Lolita_] becomes aberrant (visionary, postmodern) in its
interrogation of the formalisms--legal, sexual, literary critical--in the
ascendant during the Cold War." " The threat posed by Humbert can be
adequately understood only in the context of the complex intersection of
Cold War political and sexual fears." etc.
P.S. Please let me repeat the question I posted on 12th. Where did VN
express his preference for Pnin and Lolita among all his characters? There
is no information about the source in the margin note of Boyd's _American
Years_, and I could not find it in _Strong Opinions_. I would like to read
the original if any.
Akiko Nakata <akikonakata@email.msn.com>
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>From: Trysh Travis <ttravis@post.cis.smu.edu>
>
>Dear List--
>
>I seem to recall that a few years ago ('95-96?) I hear tell of an article
or
>perhaps even an anthology that was coming out on *lolita* and cold war
>America. Does this ring any bells for anyone? All attempts to locate same
>through library sources have come to naught. Failing this, I'd be
>interested in any good recent articles that look at *lo* through a cultural
>studies-type lens; it's for a seminar in "American Modernism and Its
>Critics." Thanks for any insights you have.
>
>Trysh Travis
>English Department
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, TX 75205
>(214) 768-4056
>
>"It's a shame when I'm in the game,
>I forget about why I came."
> -- Luscious Jackson
>
This could be some help. Frederick Whiting discusses _Lolita_ and Cold War
in his "'The Strange Particularity of the Lover's Preference': Pedophilia,
Pornography and the Anatomy of Monstrosity in _Lolita_" in _American
Literature_ Dec. 1998. He writes: "Considered in this light, the
novel[_Lolita_] becomes aberrant (visionary, postmodern) in its
interrogation of the formalisms--legal, sexual, literary critical--in the
ascendant during the Cold War." " The threat posed by Humbert can be
adequately understood only in the context of the complex intersection of
Cold War political and sexual fears." etc.
P.S. Please let me repeat the question I posted on 12th. Where did VN
express his preference for Pnin and Lolita among all his characters? There
is no information about the source in the margin note of Boyd's _American
Years_, and I could not find it in _Strong Opinions_. I would like to read
the original if any.
Akiko Nakata <akikonakata@email.msn.com>
-----Original Message-----
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$BF|;~ (B : 1999 $BG/ (B4 $B7n (B14 $BF| (B 7:02
$B7oL> (B : lolita criticism (fwd)
>From: Trysh Travis <ttravis@post.cis.smu.edu>
>
>Dear List--
>
>I seem to recall that a few years ago ('95-96?) I hear tell of an article
or
>perhaps even an anthology that was coming out on *lolita* and cold war
>America. Does this ring any bells for anyone? All attempts to locate same
>through library sources have come to naught. Failing this, I'd be
>interested in any good recent articles that look at *lo* through a cultural
>studies-type lens; it's for a seminar in "American Modernism and Its
>Critics." Thanks for any insights you have.
>
>Trysh Travis
>English Department
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, TX 75205
>(214) 768-4056
>
>"It's a shame when I'm in the game,
>I forget about why I came."
> -- Luscious Jackson
>