A case for rewriting Lolita
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- dc.contributor.author Zabalbeascoa, Patrick
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-07-03T07:56:38Z
- dc.date.available 2025-07-03T07:56:38Z
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description.abstract This paper calls for new versions, or rewritings (Lefevere 1992), of Nabokov’s 1955 (in) famous novel Lolita. The call is a reaction to the features found in Adrian Lyne’s 1997 film adaptation and the respective AVT versions of Lyne’s and Kubrick’s 1962 adaptations, which seem to support popular visions of Lolita that do not fit in with current sensitivities regarding the topic nor, it is argued, with a deeper, more careful reading of Nabokov’s work. For years, there have been calls for Lolita or some of its adaptations to be cancelled as indecent or immoral, while many of those who market the Lolita ‘brand’ do so from a very similar (smutty) interpretation of the story. This study sets out to show how Lolita can serve the purpose of denouncing child abuse and sexual exploitation, and there is ample textual evidence in the novel to prove it.
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- dc.identifier.citation Zabalbeascoa P. A case for rewriting Lolita. Token: a Journal of English Linguistics. 2024;17:129-49. DOI: 10.25951/13697
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.25951/13697
- dc.identifier.issn 2299-5900
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70824
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Jan Kochanowski University Press
- dc.relation.ispartof Token: a Journal of English Linguistics. 2024;17:129-49
- dc.rights © 2024 Jan Kochanowski University Press. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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- dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword Rewriting
- dc.subject.keyword AVT (audiovisual translation)
- dc.subject.keyword Child abuse
- dc.subject.keyword Lolita
- dc.subject.keyword Nabokov
- dc.subject.keyword Kubrick
- dc.subject.keyword Lyne
- dc.title A case for rewriting Lolita
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