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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Modern Humanities Research Association
2020
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