Lolita Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources

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Zembla
Zembla is a Penn State University site dedicated to the life and works of Nabokov. It provides a biographical portrait, a bibliography of his works, scholarly criticism, audio excerpts of his work, and more.

Scholarly Criticism of Lolita at Zembla:
Boyd, Brian. "'Even Homais Nods': Nabokov's Fallibility, or, How to Revise Lolita"

Couturier, Maurice. "The Poerotic Novel: Nabokov's Lolita and Ada"

Couturier, Maurice. "Lolita et la France"

 

Schuman, Sam. "On the Road to Canterbury, Liliput and Elphinstone - The Rough Guide: Satiric Travel Narratives in Chaucer, Swift and Nabokov"

Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth. "Executing Sentences in Lolita and the Law"

Michael Juliar. A Note about the possible inspiration for The Enchanter and Lolita

Lemay, Eric. "Dolorous Laughter"

Audio excerpts from Nobokov lectures at Harvard

"Listen" link to excerpts from Nabokov's novels, but Lolita link is dead

Nabokov Family Web

Nabokov's Lolita
This site presents a variety of ways to look at Nabokov's novel Lolita, not only in the form of short critical essays, but also by providing a list of online resources for studying the novel.
Essays

A Brief Biography of Vladimir Nabokov
An extremely brief summary of Nabokov's life and the emergence of Lolita

An Interview With Vladimir Nabokov
A brief posthumous interview conducted by August C. Bourré, on November 26th, 2002.

Morality as an Aesthetic Choice
A short exploration of Humbert Humbert's attraction to Dolores Haze as the result of an aesthetic sensibility rather than connected with Western society's moral norms.

Personal Responses to Lolita
A collection of personal responses to Nabokov's novel (although there is only one at present).

http://www.vestige.org/nabokov/lolita/essays.html

CNN Special: Nabokov Centennial
Offers a biography and discusses Lolita's impact. You can read excerpts (but not full articles) from book reviews between 1947 and 1998.

Lolita Reading Guide
Offers 20+ questions as well as discussion topics, author biography, and bibliography.

LITERATURE AND FILM:Study Questions for Nabokov's Lolita, Part One

Lolita: A Collaborative, Annotated Webliography
annotated list of print articles up to 1997

a bibliography of nabokov criticism
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/biblol.htm
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/bibtran.htm
list of print resources

The Cinematic Art of Nympholepsy: Movie Star Culture as Loser Culture in Nabokov's Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Critical Essay

An Interview with Stephen Schiff
on-line interview with the screenwriter of the new film version of Lolita, Stephen Schiff

Lolita Images and Multimedia
photos + 1 movie clip and 1 audio clip; from the 1962 and 1997 film adaptations

Internet Movie Database: Nabakov
The Internet Movie Database offers cross-referenced information on the 1962 and 1997 film adaptations of Lolita, as well as a file on Nabokov himself.

Introduction Strategies: Write a literary analysis of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita

Lolita's impact (CNN article)

Martin Amis on Lolita

An Overview of Nabokov's Major English-language Literary Works

Lolita and Mr. Girodias by Vladimir Nabokov
Nabakov was the subject of an article in which Mr. Girodias gave his account of the events leading up to and following the publication of Lolita. This is Mr. Nabokov's reply.

 


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