The Enchanted Hunters in Nabokov’s Lolita

Modality in Lolita

The insidiously enchanted forrest

Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (henceforth: Representation), B.C. van Fraassen’s most recent, 400 page contribution to the philosophy of science, is contemporary, varied, systematic, historical, exciting, provocative, empiricist, pragmatist, profound, sometimes sketchy and accessible. We ground these judgments subsequently whilst treating most of the topics of Representatio...

Not an enchanted place.

I was once asked to take on a new patient by her husband. He came expecting to be turned down because he had been told by others that his request was unreasonable. His once-well wife needed to be in a chronic care setting, but she wanted to live at home. And he wanted her at home too. He needed a physician to organize her home care. I agreed to take her on in my practice, and we started to put ...

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...