1 The State of the Art: A Field in Trouble. 2 (Un) Reliable Discourse off to a Stimulating
Equivocal Start: Why Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction Falls Short and Where to Go …

One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir
Nabokov's Lolita is renowned for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and …

summary Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist
and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refractions of physics, psychology, and …

At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing
everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in …

Although commentators on Lolita have often discussed gender issues, they have rarely
addressed explicitly the issue of how the reader's gender determines the novel's meaning …

Susanne Rohrs Buch betritt sowohl theoretisch als auch textanalytisch Neuland: ein
amibitiöses Projekt, das eine Reinterpretation der amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte auf …

In our post–John Ray, Jr. enlightened age, we teachers of literature may laugh at the
“philistine [s]”(Nabokov, 4) who would question whether Lolita belongs in the American …

Dismissed by critics as unimportant, John Ray, Jr. emerges as a diabolical conspirator,
appropriating Humbert's memoir for his own purposes. Nabokov's sly guidance in the …

This study begins from the controversial date-counting puzzle in Lolita, and links it to
calendric phenomena in Pnin and Pale Fire. The three novels are joined by their hidden use …

In the afterword to Lolita, Nabokov claimed that in this book he had to invent both Lolita and
America after having invented Europe in his previous fiction. This paper focuses precisely on …