Dear List,
I wish to advertise a book recently published:
Didier MACHU
LOLITA OU LE TYRAN CONFONDU – Lecture de Nabokov
Université de Lyon 2: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2010
448 pages, 14 x 18 cm
[Preface by Jeff Edmunds]
ISBN13 : 978-2-7297-0831-3
ISBN10 : 2-7297-0831-6
Presentation: http://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/?q=node/68&id_product=838)
"Lolita, a famed and infamous best-seller, remains largely unexplored.
A book of passion and possession it certainly is—in all senses of these words—but much of what it means remains to be said though it is fully there for us to discover.
Readers are invited to a gratifying inquiry into the particulars of the text and its complex entwining—much as Humbert is compelled to a superficially similar scrutiny.
An imperialist and cowardly tyrant, a monster and would-be-Apollo, Humbert pounces on a child's body as he would take possession of a continent. Ultimately though, in the New World where that domestic Hitler comes to know democracy as well as mass culture (Hollywood, comics, ...), Quilty, a Dionysian figure and his antagonistic double, upends Humbert's assumed character and the order prevailing so far."
This rough translation of the back cover blurb fails to reflect all this study means to investigate and bring into light. Thomas Aquinas, Baden-Powell, Boris Karloff, Captain America, Carl Jung, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Chaplin, Clarabelle Cow, Clark Gable, Fritz Lang, Harlequin, Hitler, J.M. Barrie, John Heartfield, King Arthur, Li'l Abner, Maupassant, Petrarch, Proust, Rousseau, Shirley Temple, Shklovsky and Superman are but a few of the figures called as witnesses, plaintiffs or accomplices (through no fault of their own).
I hope you find the time for a peek into the book and enjoy it.
For the record, I would also like to mention that, the year before, I co-edited a collection of essays (in English and in French) on Lolita—the novel by Nabokov and Kubrick's film (the book is still available):
Didier MACHU & Taïna TUHKUNEN (eds.)
Lolita, roman de Vladimir Nabokov (1955) et film de Stanley Kubrick ( 1962).
Paris : Ellipses, 2009
ISBN 978-2-7298-5286-3
Presentation: http://www.editions-ellipses.fr/fiche_detaille.asp?identite=6975
Table of contents:
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Etudes sur le roman de Vladimir Nabokov |
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Didier Machu |
Introduction à Lolita, roman de Vladimir Nabokov |
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Christine Raguet |
Lolita, “the Most Mythopoeic Nymphet.” |
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René Alladaye |
“By Putting the Geography of the United States into Motion…” (Lolita, II, 1) |
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Jacqueline Hamrit |
Lolita à l’épreuve de la théorie des genres littéraires |
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Lara Delage-Toriel |
Nabokov’s Sense of Detail – with Particular Reference to Lolita |
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Isabelle Poulin |
Une Écriture à touche-touche : intertextualité et plurilinguisme dans Lolita |
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Daniel Thomières |
Séduction et herméneutique dans Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov |
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Yona Dureau |
Quelques rapports entre la science et l’écriture dans Lolita
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Etudes sur le film de Stanley Kubrick |
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Michel Ciment |
Avant-propo |
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Taïna Tuhkunen |
Introduction à Lolita, film de Stanley Kubrick |
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Gilles Menegaldo |
Lolita et l’œuvre de Stanley Kubrick avant 1962 :héritage et filiation |
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Patricia Kruth |
Le Spectateur, le monstre et la victime :le point de vue dans Lolita de Stanley Kubrick |
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David Roche |
(De)constructing Lolita as “Sexual Object”: Metonymy, Identification and Subjecthood in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) |
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Pierre Floquet |
L’Éclat noir du burlesque dans Lolita |
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Michel Etcheverry |
Le Charme feutré du mauvais goût philistin :Lolita d’Adrian Lyne (1997) |
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Etudes croisées |
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Marie Bouchet |
Focalization and Narration in Lolita, Novel and Film |
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Christine Evain |
Hollywoodisation de Lolita |
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Anne Paupe |
La Place de la route dans Lolita : de Nabokov à Kubrick |
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Isabelle Van Peteghem |
Voix de femmes dans Lolita,le roman de Nabokov et le film de Kubrick |
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Géraldine Chouard & Anne Crémieux |
Love at First Sight: Humbert Meets Lolita |
All the best,
Didier Machu,
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
Avenue de l'Université
BP 576
64012 PAU Cedex (France)
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