Teaching Nabokov''s Lolita in the #Metoo Era

Informationen zum Autor Eléna Rakhimova-Sommers is principal lecturer in Russian and global literature at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Klappentext Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to answer: how do we balance analysis of Lolita's brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? Innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, and new interpretations give readers an opportunity to engage with and reimagine the novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION: The Anxiety of Teaching Nabokov's Tale of Non-Consent, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers PART I: ASKING THE QUESTION: WHY TEACH LOLITA? Chapter 1: (How) Should a Feminist Teach Lolita in the Wake of #MeToo? Marylin Edelstein Chapter 2: Why I Teach Lolita, Anne Dwyer PART II: OFFERING SUGGESTIONS: HOW TO TEACH LOLITA Chapter 3: Not for the Faint of Heart: My Students' Lolita Jury Duty, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers Chapter 4: A Requiem for Dolores: Teaching Lolita in a Russian Prison Literature Course, José Vergara Chapter 5: Teaching Lolita in the Department of Drama, Alisa Zhulina Chapter 6: Three Lolitas: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon in Fiction and Film, Julian W. Connolly Chapter 7: Author- Dolores Haze, Charles Byrd Chapter 8: Nabokov and #MeToo: Consent, Close Reading, and the Sexualized Workplace, Eric Naiman Chapter 9: Resisting Humbert's Rhetorical Appeals: A Reevaluation of Lolita's Ethics, Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya Chapter 10: Reading Lolita as a Teenage Girl, Francesca Capossela

Product details

• Authors: Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
• Assisted by: Elena Rakhimova-Sommers (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2023
• EAN: 9781793628404
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-840-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, feminism;Lolita;Me Too;Nabokov;Russian literature