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Teaching Nabokov's Lolita the #MeToo Era

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita the #MeToo Era in Bloomington, MN
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Teaching Nabokov’s
Lolita
in the #MeToo Era
seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students
in the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond, how do we approach Nabokov’s inflammatory masterpiece,
? How do we read a novel that describes an unpardonable crime? How do we balance analysis of
’s brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? This student-focused volume offers practical and specific answers to these questions and includes suggestions for teaching the novel in conventional and online modalities. Distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered nature of
by sharing innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, methodologies of teaching the novel through film and theatre, and new critical analyses and interpretations.
Lolita
in the #MeToo Era
seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students
in the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond, how do we approach Nabokov’s inflammatory masterpiece,
? How do we read a novel that describes an unpardonable crime? How do we balance analysis of
’s brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? This student-focused volume offers practical and specific answers to these questions and includes suggestions for teaching the novel in conventional and online modalities. Distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered nature of
by sharing innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, methodologies of teaching the novel through film and theatre, and new critical analyses and interpretations.