Is Poetry Play for Mortal Stakes?

Jacke plays a clip from Nabokov discussing his famous novel Lolita, in which the frantic narrator Humbert Humbert recounts his passionate (and illegal, immoral, and illicit) love for a young girl. After hearing from the author, Jacke plays clips from three History of Literature Podcast interviews: Jenny Minton Quigley, Jim Shepard,, and Joshua Ferris.

Additional listening:

• Episode 318 - Lolita (with Jenny Minton Quigley)
• Episode 96 - Dracula, Lolita, and the Power of Volcanoes (with Jim Shepard)
• Episode 112 - The Novelist and the Witch-Doctor: Unpacking Nabokov's Case Against Freud (with Joshua Ferris)

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