Why I Teach 'Lolita' (Article)
Title: Why I Teach 'Lolita'
Author: Anne Dwyer
Abstract: Anne Dwyer's students questioned the idea of reading the novel, even in a course on Nabokov. Here is her explanation of why the work should be taught. I’ve taught an undergraduate seminar on Vladimir Nabokov since 2008. In each iteration I’ve addressed the challenges of reading Lolita -- a novel whose plot (the fabula, to speak in Russian formalist terms) is about the abduction and ongoing sexual abuse of a child, but whose structures and devices (the siuzhet) point everywhere else. In 2016, students debated whether I should have included a “trigger warning” on the syllabus. This year I added a few words asking students to inform themselves about the plot of Lolita and to consider what it means that Nabokov treats “a range of human experience in a highly artful, and even artificial, way.”
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/05/14/teaching-lolita-still-appropriate-opinion
Format: Other
Publisher: Inside Higher Ed

Jeg tror jeg ga studentene sjokk (Article)
Title: Jeg tror jeg ga studentene sjokk
Author: Anne Dwyer
Abstract: Hun ville undervise i Lolita. Studentene protesterte. – Det var en total frakobling mellom min måte å lese på og deres, sier Anne E. Dwyer, førsteamanuensis i litteratur.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://morgenbladet.no/boker/2018/09/jeg-tror-jeg-ga-studentene-sjokk
Format: Other
Publisher: Norwegian Weekly

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