A Readers Guide to Nabokovs Lolita - Julian Connolly Book

  • Author: Julian Connolly
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press; Annotated edition
  • Cover Type: Paperback
  • Pages: 208 pages
  • Language: English
  • Genre: Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism
  • Genre Class: Reference, Language, Languages
  • One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita is renown for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. A Readers Guide to Nabokovs Lolita carries readers through the intricacies of Nabokovs work and helps them achieve a better understanding of his rich artistic design. The book opens with a detailed chronology of Nabokovs life and literary career. Chapters include an analysis of the novel, a discussion of its precursors in Nabokovs work and in world literature, an essay on the character of Dolly Haze (Humberts Lolita), and a commentary on the critical and cultural afterlife of the novel. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of selected critical reading. The guide should prove illuminating both for first-time readers of Lolita and for experienced re-readers of Nabokovs classic work.

    P>Review "The importance of this book lies in the way it succinctly summarizes critical viewpoints yet provides a fresh and accessible interpretation of the novel [Connolly] never claims to give a definitive reading of the book, only to try to help readers "grasp the full complexity and sweep of Nabokovs unique creation" (p.1), which he admirably achieves." --Jason Merrill, Michigan State University, published in the Russian Review About the Author: Julian W. Connolly (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Nabokovs Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other (1992) and editor of Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (1999) and The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (2005). He has published over sixty articles on Russian Literature.

    (BK-9781934843666)

    SKU BK-9781934843666
    Barcode # 9781934843666
    Brand Academic Studies Press
    Artist / Author Julian Connolly
    Shipping Weight 0.3000kg
    Shipping Width 0.160m
    Shipping Height 0.010m
    Shipping Length 0.230m
    Type Paperback

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