Abstract
dc:description"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 Underground in Lolita is Humbert's relative success as an artist. While the underground man's notes are circular and unending, Humbert's confession is complete and symmetrical, a transformation of experience into art."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Rutsala, Kirsten May
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Temira Pachmuss
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9944988
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87659