CALL FOR PAPERS

  Even though Lolita is one of the most studied works by Nabokov, its many facets and double-bottoms have not yet been completely explored. As Brian Boyd underscored in Nice, "Lolita is easily Nabokov’s best-known book, and seems likely to remain so. But it also seems to me the least adequately known of his major works." (Cycnos, 24:1). 

   In order to further our knowledge of this novel and of its influence within Nabokov's fiction and outside of it, we invite papers between 5,000 and 10,000 words that engage with, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Motifs in Lolita: annotation and interpretation
- Intertextual patterns in Lolita
- Arts in Lolita
- Popular culture in Lolita
- Lolita reinterpreted in film, music, visual arts: the questions of adaptation, with special focus on Kubrick's movie
- Lolita in relation to other Nabokovian works (and especially The Original of Laura)

   Please send 300-word proposals (attached as a .doc-file or a .rtf-file) together with a short biographical note to marie.bouchet@univ-tlse2.fr.

Deadline for submissions: June 31, 2010.


Papers will be published in Miranda, a peer-reviewed online academic journal (ISSN 2108-6559):

http://www.miranda-ejournal.eu/1/miranda/index.xsp

    Proposals are due June 31, 2010. The results of papers selection will be communicated to authors by July 7, 2010.
    Final papers are due August 31, 2010.
    Online publication is planned for the end of November 2010.
  
Do not hesitate contacting me for further information,
Looking forward to reading you,

Marie Bouchet, PhD
University of Toulouse, France
marie.bouchet@univ-tlse2.fr