Lolita, I Presume; On a Character Entitled “Lolita”
This essay focuses on the problem of naming the heroine of Nabokov’s famous novel. From the very beginning, her name is both overdetermined and indeterminate. As the novel proceeds, she is designated by an increasing number of diminutives, aliases, and misnomers, even as her own perspective remains...
Main Author: | Susan Elizabeth Sweeney |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2010-11-01
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Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/1479 |
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