Pleasurable pedagogies: Reading Lolita in Tehran and the rhetoric of empathy

College English

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 506-521

  Kulbaga, Theresa A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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