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Dominican University of California
Loving Lo: The Dialectic of Self-Transcendence and Self-Assertion as Illuminated by the Literary Art of Nabokov's Lolita
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thesis explores the opposition between self-assertive and self-transcending needs within the 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 us to surrender the self that we have struggled to establish. Using Lolita to explore this dynamic process, the thesis integrates aesthetics, religion, and depth psychology in a philosophical analysis of the human dilemma.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Humanities
- Year
- 2004
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Van Der Ryn, Julia
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Philp Novak, PhD
- Jan Van Stavern, PhD
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/246
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1245