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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Lolita"”.
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Lolita in the Contemporary American Classroom: Pedagogical and Learning Approaches
… strategies for Vladimir Nabokov’s 1958 novel Lolita in the midst of the current American political and social climate. Some of the factors of the current political and social climate in the United States thought to have an effect on the teaching of Lolita, and were thus considered for further …
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Taboo topics in fiction: The case of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
… or Humbert’s memoirs, is only published after Lolita has died in order to preserve her dignity. John Ray Jnr. is the psychologist who is charged with editing Humbert's memoirs to ensure that no lewd details are published. This brings problems of their own, as we find that John Ray Jnr. has …
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The Philosophy Of Aesthetic Bliss: A Marxist Reading Of Nabakov's Lolita
… or political ideologies, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is actually a very emphatic cultural statement. Using the theories of Fredric Jameson, I will examine the novel in terms of what it has to say about social relations, uncovering the inescapable political agenda. Lolita is a Modernist novel …
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Readers in Pursuit of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks in <em>Lolita</em>
… competing frameworks in Vladimir Nabokov’s <em>Lolita</em>—the fictional Foreword written by John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. and the manuscript written by Humbert Humbert—in order to understand to what extent the construction manipulates the rhetorical appeal. While previous scholarship isolates the two …
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Loving Lo: The Dialectic of Self-Transcendence and Self-Assertion as Illuminated by the Literary Art of Nabokov's Lolita
… human condition using Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Lolita, for illustrative purposes. I argue that the human quest for meaning and fuller humanity hinges on finding a balance between our need for autonomous selfhood and our need to be part of a larger reality, a balance that paradoxically requires …
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Maiden’s Fashion As Eternal Becomings: Victorian Maidens and Sugar Sweet Cuties Donning Japanese Street Fashion in Japan and North America
Lolita fashion is a youth street style originating from Japan that draws on Victorian-era children’s clothing, Rococo aesthetics, and Western Punk and Gothic subculture. It is worn by teenage girls and women of a wide range of ages, and through the flow of related media and clothing aided by the …
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The Iran I Know as a Woman; Exploring the Boundaries of Literature and Ethnography in Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis
… and ethnography in case of <em>Reading Lolita in Tehran</em> (Nafisi, 2003) and <em>Persepolis</em>(Satrapi, 2003) asking whether personal memoirs can be read as generational memories. By a) a historical survey of “Women’s Question” in contemporary Iran, b) studying the life experience …
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Metaparody in Selected Literary Works
"In Lolita, Nabokov's Humbert seems to be a metaparody of the underground man. Both narrators compose confessions which alternate between candor and obfuscation, between pronouncements of their guilt and self-justifying declarations of innocence. The most significant ""revision"" of Notes from the …
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Fetishising the Dominant Culture in Migration Narratives: Examining Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, Bharati Mukhejree’s Jasmine and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
… migration narratives of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), Bharati Mukhejree’s Jasmine (1989) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) in order to reveal how certain meanings become more legitimate than others. In my discussion I expose the ways a narrative can be …
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Subversive narrative techniques and self-reflexivity in Vladimir Nabokov's the real life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada, or Ardor: A family Chronicle
This dissertation has three aims. First, the establishment of the theoretical foundations of deconstruction and its appropriation by literary criticism. Second, the application of deconstruction to the novels of Nabokov; it has to be stressed that this application is not itself a deconstructive …
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Small Fires
… To Kill a Mockingbird. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita provides further inspiration, inasmuch as the concept of exploring an illicit sexual relationship between an adult male and girl child is concerned, but Small Fires seeks to tell the story from the perspective of the girl child, rather than …
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Novelists/scenarists: Four Case Studies of Writers Adapting Their Own Fiction to Film (Wright, Nabokov, Dickey, Didion)
… Richard Wright's Native Son, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, James Dickey's Deliverance, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays. The works chosen are all serious and complex modern novels by major novelists. In each case, the writer undertook the writing of the principal screenplay for the film …
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The blue flame and the red flame : love and eroticism
… I review five Films ( Eyes Wide Shut, Lolita, Exotica, The Lover and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love ). These films debate the issues of eroticism, love, taboo and obsession in different but illuminating ways, expand our understanding of heterosexuality and explore the relationship between …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the aesthetic, defending art’s freedom from ideological …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the aesthetic, defending art’s freedom from ideological …
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The Russian in Nabokov's English novels
… a major force; when he is non-Russian (as in <em>Lolita</em> and <em>Transparent Things</em>) it has only minor impact.</p> <p>These Russianisms comprise a significant formal element and express (to varying degrees, of course) in patterned modes numerous structural components, ranging from theme …
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Leidėjo asmenybės įtaka leidybai /
… Saulius Žukas, the main head of “Tyto alba” - Lolita Varanavičienė and director of the country's largest publishing house “Alma littera” - Arvydas Andrijauskas. These three publishers share common - a leader in its particular characteristics: infinite love for work, great curiosity, courage, …
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Developing A Decision Tree To Address Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia In The Primary Care Setting
<p>AbstractDeveloping a Decision Tree to Address Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in the Primary Care Setting There are 55 million people living with dementia worldwide. In the United States, there are approximately 7.2 million people living with Alzheimer’s dementia and these …
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Molecular biology of peripheral nerve regeneration: Expression and role of Netrin-1, DCC and Runx2
Damage to the peripheral nerves causes a series of molecular, cellular, and structural changes critical to initiating a successful regenerative process involving degeneration, inflammation, axon re-growth and innervation of the denervated target, and finally functional recovery. In this thesis I …
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