Subject
Nabokov Society Panels at MLA 1997
Date
Body
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society, an Allied Organization of the
MLA, will sponsor two sessions at the Toronto Annual Convention. The
programs are:
"LOLITA in Context"
Presider: Ellen Pifer, Univ. of Delaware
1. "Cultural Icons in Conflict: LOLITA and Dostoevsky's "Gentle Creature"
Julian Connolly, Univ. of Virginia
2. "Bedtime Stories: Fairy Tales and Pedophiliac Fantasies in LOLITA"
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the Holy Cross
3. "'Imagine Me': The Myth of the American Road in LOLITA"
Robert Barringer, Univ. of Delaware
4. "Nabokov's LOLITA Screenplays: From Hollywood Production to Literary Text
Douglas Baldwin, Yale Univ.
-----------------------------------------
"Vladimir Nabokov: Varia"
Presider: D. Barton Johnson, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
1. "Lolita of the Limberlost: Vladimir Nabokov & Gene Stratton-Porter"
D. Barton Johnson, UCSB
2. "Possible Worlds Theory and Nabokov's Novels"
Cary Henson, Indiana University
3. "Editing Nabokov at _The New Yorker_: The Letters of Vladimir Nabokov
and William Maxwell"
Barbara Burkhardt, Univ. of Illinois, Urbab-Champaign
4. "Nabokov and Comic Art"
Gavriel Shapiro, Cornell University
MLA, will sponsor two sessions at the Toronto Annual Convention. The
programs are:
"LOLITA in Context"
Presider: Ellen Pifer, Univ. of Delaware
1. "Cultural Icons in Conflict: LOLITA and Dostoevsky's "Gentle Creature"
Julian Connolly, Univ. of Virginia
2. "Bedtime Stories: Fairy Tales and Pedophiliac Fantasies in LOLITA"
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the Holy Cross
3. "'Imagine Me': The Myth of the American Road in LOLITA"
Robert Barringer, Univ. of Delaware
4. "Nabokov's LOLITA Screenplays: From Hollywood Production to Literary Text
Douglas Baldwin, Yale Univ.
-----------------------------------------
"Vladimir Nabokov: Varia"
Presider: D. Barton Johnson, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
1. "Lolita of the Limberlost: Vladimir Nabokov & Gene Stratton-Porter"
D. Barton Johnson, UCSB
2. "Possible Worlds Theory and Nabokov's Novels"
Cary Henson, Indiana University
3. "Editing Nabokov at _The New Yorker_: The Letters of Vladimir Nabokov
and William Maxwell"
Barbara Burkhardt, Univ. of Illinois, Urbab-Champaign
4. "Nabokov and Comic Art"
Gavriel Shapiro, Cornell University