To clarify, I meant that last post with the photograph as response to the NY Times article Suellen posted that emphasized controlling and jealous behavior, kinds of emotional abuse that can exist also without sexual abuse. One is likely to encounter such behavior in this world with or without having experienced sexual abuse, and drawn to such persons for other reasons, the bad coming along with the good and taking time and yielding hunger to figure it out.  

Barrie Karp

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Barrie Karp <barriekarp@gmail.com> wrote:
Women can be drawn to, or look away from, things that give language for such abuses. If only no one felt barriers to Lolita.
Barrie Karp


On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Stringer-Hye, Suellen <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
I agree with this defense and would go even further to say, that the book is in itself and exploration of how and why the vulnerable and weak are victimized by the strong and respectable. "Reading between the lines" is a "life skill" that Nabokov encouraged. 

Suellen Stringer-Hye



From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] on behalf of Eric NAIMAN [naiman@BERKELEY.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 3:12 PM
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] Anne Dwyer on "Why I teach Lolita"

For those of us who teach or admire Lolita, Anne Dwyer (Pomona College) has published an eloquent defense of the novel.


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