• Episode 3: Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"

  • Jul 1 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Episode 3: Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita"

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  • 📖Episode 3: Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” 📖


    From Ancient Greece to the modern day, this episode explores one of literature’s most divisive descendants: Lolita. We cover Freud, the female experience, and feminism as we explore a book deemed taboo fantasy by many but a miserable reality to girls and women everywhere. 


    Content Warnings:

    This episode does require multiple content warnings. We delve into topics of child abuse, assault, and paedophilia. If you are sensitive to these themes I gently urge you to avoid this episode.


    Sources:


    We read this summary on Lolita from VeganPhilsopher on Reddit:


    https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/om9wrd/lolita_by_vladimir_nabokov_thoughts_and_discussion/


    This article was a directly-quoted source on Lolita: 


    A moral-philosophical perspective on paedophilia and incest by BEN SPIECKER & JAN STEUTE in Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2000. 


    Some feminist reading recommendations:


    Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity by Judith Butler.


    The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir



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