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LOLITA: Novel and Film (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Ellen Pifer, author of the folowing posting, is the current
Vice President of the Vladimir Nabokov Society and author of the
ground-breaking study, _Nabokov and the Novel_ (Cambridge, Harvard UP,
1980), as well as many articles on VN and other contemporary American
writers.
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:37:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Ellen Pifer <epifer@UDel.Edu>
I am tempted to add my two cents to the recent discussion/debate about the
relative merits of Kubrick's movie-version of LOLITA, but will confine
myself to mentioning my previously published article on the subject, "The
Incomplete Metamorphosis of *Lolita*: From Novel to Screenplay and Film,"
in *La Litterature Anglo-Americaine a L'Ecran*, eds. Daniel Royot et
Gerard Huges (Paris: Didier, 1993), 124-34.
In my (more widely available) essay on *Lolita* in *The Garland
Companion to Vladimir Nabokov,* I offer a brief summary of that discussion
(pp. 306,314-15) and add some remarks on Edward Albee's hopelessly
misconceived playscript (306). (The play bombed in Boston in 1981.)
Those particularly interested in the topic should note the recent
announcement by the VN Society in the Spring 1997 *Newsletter.* Under
Calls for Papers for the 1997 Toronto Convention, see listings (p. 26)
under
"International Nabokov Society," which read as follows:
INTERNATIONAL VLADIMIR NABOKOV SOCIETY:
1)*Lolita* in Context. Issues, controversies, English and Russian texts,
film adaptations, intertextuality. Papers or proposals by 1 Mar.; Ellen
Pifer.
2) Open Topic. Papers or proposals by 1 Mar.; D. Barton Johnson.
Sincerely,
Ellen Pifer
English Department
127 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Tel: 302-831-6965
Fax: 302-831-1586
Vice President of the Vladimir Nabokov Society and author of the
ground-breaking study, _Nabokov and the Novel_ (Cambridge, Harvard UP,
1980), as well as many articles on VN and other contemporary American
writers.
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:37:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Ellen Pifer <epifer@UDel.Edu>
I am tempted to add my two cents to the recent discussion/debate about the
relative merits of Kubrick's movie-version of LOLITA, but will confine
myself to mentioning my previously published article on the subject, "The
Incomplete Metamorphosis of *Lolita*: From Novel to Screenplay and Film,"
in *La Litterature Anglo-Americaine a L'Ecran*, eds. Daniel Royot et
Gerard Huges (Paris: Didier, 1993), 124-34.
In my (more widely available) essay on *Lolita* in *The Garland
Companion to Vladimir Nabokov,* I offer a brief summary of that discussion
(pp. 306,314-15) and add some remarks on Edward Albee's hopelessly
misconceived playscript (306). (The play bombed in Boston in 1981.)
Those particularly interested in the topic should note the recent
announcement by the VN Society in the Spring 1997 *Newsletter.* Under
Calls for Papers for the 1997 Toronto Convention, see listings (p. 26)
under
"International Nabokov Society," which read as follows:
INTERNATIONAL VLADIMIR NABOKOV SOCIETY:
1)*Lolita* in Context. Issues, controversies, English and Russian texts,
film adaptations, intertextuality. Papers or proposals by 1 Mar.; Ellen
Pifer.
2) Open Topic. Papers or proposals by 1 Mar.; D. Barton Johnson.
Sincerely,
Ellen Pifer
English Department
127 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Tel: 302-831-6965
Fax: 302-831-1586