Lolita Speaks

Modality in Lolita

Teaching Lolita Through Pushkin’s Onegin

CHAPTER 11 Reviving Lolita ?

First, there was the book. Then there was the 1962 film followed by yet another filmic version in 1997 of Nabokov's (1958) infamous best seller Lolita. Simultaneously repulsive and fascinating mediated por­ trayals of young girls as inviting and willing participants in their own sexual exploitation have fueled many a male fantasy. Sexualized images of girls are not only found between the covers...

Lolita Fashion: a trans-global subculture

While there are some who would argue that the origin of Lolita fashion can be traced back to fiction (namely, the 1955 novel, Lolita, which was adapted to film in 1962 and again in 1997) and has relevance to sexual attractiveness with reference to the young, this popular style developed more recently into a subcultural identity in Japan as a distinctive style in its own right. This article rega...

Babel speaks Hindi

Babel provides a unified interface for creation of multilingual documents. Unfortunately no Indic languages are currently supported, so typesetting in Indic languages is based on specialised packages. The most advanced of these is Velthuis Devanāgar̄ı for TEX, because it already provides Hindi values for language-dependent strings as well as a macro for a European-style date. A language definiti...