The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008)
In this article, I compare the function of names and the act of naming in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa's Myra (2008). I situate Nabokov's decision to write a narrative from the perspective of a male abuser and Velho da Costa's centring her novel on a...
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2020
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| description | In this article, I compare the function of names and the act of naming in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa's Myra (2008). I situate Nabokov's decision to write a narrative from the perspective of a male abuser and Velho da Costa's centring her novel on a female victim in the specific contexts in which these works were published. Whereas Lolita stands as a challenge to North American obscenity laws in the 1950s, Myra was written against the backdrop of a child abuse scandal, involving a state orphanage and powerful men from the Portuguese elite.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4585cffe-8e03-4ee5-b49d-3da11f2c41c82022-03-26T15:08:23ZThe polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008)Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4585cffe-8e03-4ee5-b49d-3da11f2c41c8EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordModern Humanities Research Association2020Stennett, TIn this article, I compare the function of names and the act of naming in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa's Myra (2008). I situate Nabokov's decision to write a narrative from the perspective of a male abuser and Velho da Costa's centring her novel on a female victim in the specific contexts in which these works were published. Whereas Lolita stands as a challenge to North American obscenity laws in the 1950s, Myra was written against the backdrop of a child abuse scandal, involving a state orphanage and powerful men from the Portuguese elite. |
| spellingShingle | Stennett, T The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008) |
| title | The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008) |
| title_full | The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008) |
| title_fullStr | The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008) |
| title_short | The polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser: a comparative study of names and naming in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Maria Velho da Costa’s Myra (2008) |
| title_sort | polyhedral victim and the patchwork abuser a comparative study of names and naming in vladimir nabokov s lolita 1955 and maria velho da costa s myra 2008 |
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