7. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont. )

The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In the last of three lectures on Lolita, Professor Amy Hungerford discusses the broader context of Nabokov s relation to his novel: both the debate it inspires surrounding censorship and artistic originality, and the concern it evokes in him about the work of art s distillation of the living world or word. Hungerford masterfully draws connections between Nabokov s interest in lepidopterybutterfly collectingwith his evident fear that the printed word become lap