![]() Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant, funny, and poignant novel Lolita foregrounds such questions. ![]() In recent years, many critics and theorists (including some Nabokov scholars) have (re)turned to ethical questions about literature: Does literature imitate life, and will readers, in turn, imitate the actions (whether virtuous or ignoble) of characters in literary texts? How and why can literary works be ethically beneficial or harmful for their readers? Are authors responsible for any ethical effects-positive or negative-their works may produce in readers? What are the relations between aesthetics and ethics? ![]() The late 1980s saw a resurgence of interest in ethics and literature, with the publication of new books on the subject by major scholars like J.
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