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On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:11 AM, laurence hochard <
laurence.hochard@hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> "many who come to *Lolita* expecting to be horrified or titillated will
> find themselves disappointed"
>
> But along with experiencing "literary, intellectual rapture" the readers
> *are* horrified and titillated. Is it not hypocritical to deny it?
> is it not an essential part of the experience of reading Lolita? didn't
> Nabokov *want* the reader to be horrified *because* they have allowed
> themselves to be titillated?
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:29:36 -0400
> From: barriekarp@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [NABOKV-L] sighting
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>
>
> "the greatest novel of rapture in modern fiction"? oh, literary,
> intellectual rapture. But that's not what the ad means or what people
> thought or think still after all this time.
>
> Barrie Karp
>
>
> http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/articles/the-12-most-famous-banned-books-of-all-time/?utm_source=emails&utm_medium=featured&utm_campaign=260415northamericaliterature
>
> [image: Lolita cover | © Penguin]*Lolita cover | © Penguin
> <http://www.penguin.co.uk/>*
> <"Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov">
>
> <"A banned book whose reception has often obscured its actual content,
> many who come to *Lolita* expecting to be horrified or titillated will
> find themselves disappointed. A bitter-hearted satire on American values in
> the mid-20th century, its few quasi-erotic passages are few and far
> between. That has not stopped its controversial subject matter from finding
> it banned in the United Kingdom
> <http://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/> and the usually
> liberal France in the fifties after one of the first tabloid morality
> panics where launched upon it by the Sunday Express.">
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On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:11 AM, laurence hochard <
laurence.hochard@hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> "many who come to *Lolita* expecting to be horrified or titillated will
> find themselves disappointed"
>
> But along with experiencing "literary, intellectual rapture" the readers
> *are* horrified and titillated. Is it not hypocritical to deny it?
> is it not an essential part of the experience of reading Lolita? didn't
> Nabokov *want* the reader to be horrified *because* they have allowed
> themselves to be titillated?
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:29:36 -0400
> From: barriekarp@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [NABOKV-L] sighting
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>
>
> "the greatest novel of rapture in modern fiction"? oh, literary,
> intellectual rapture. But that's not what the ad means or what people
> thought or think still after all this time.
>
> Barrie Karp
>
>
> http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/articles/the-12-most-famous-banned-books-of-all-time/?utm_source=emails&utm_medium=featured&utm_campaign=260415northamericaliterature
>
> [image: Lolita cover | © Penguin]*Lolita cover | © Penguin
> <http://www.penguin.co.uk/>*
> <"Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov">
>
> <"A banned book whose reception has often obscured its actual content,
> many who come to *Lolita* expecting to be horrified or titillated will
> find themselves disappointed. A bitter-hearted satire on American values in
> the mid-20th century, its few quasi-erotic passages are few and far
> between. That has not stopped its controversial subject matter from finding
> it banned in the United Kingdom
> <http://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/> and the usually
> liberal France in the fifties after one of the first tabloid morality
> panics where launched upon it by the Sunday Express.">
> Google Search
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> Contact <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> NOJ
> <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Zembla
> <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> Nabokv-L
> <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm>
> Policies <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Subscription options
> <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L> AdaOnline
> <http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/> NSJ Ada Annotations
> <http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html> L-Soft Search the archive
> <https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L> VN Bibliography
> Blog <http://vnbiblio.com/>
>
> All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
> Google Search
> <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&hl=en%0A>
> the archive
> <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&hl=en%0A>
> Contact <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> NOJ
> <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Zembla
> <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> Nabokv-L
> <http://web.utk.edu/%7Esblackwe/EDNote.htm>
> Policies <http://web.utk.edu/%7Esblackwe/EDNote.htm> Subscription options
> <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L> AdaOnline
> <http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/> NSJ Ada Annotations
> <http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html> L-Soft Search the archive
> <https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L> VN Bibliography
> Blog <http://vnbiblio.com/>
>
> All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
>
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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