Alexia Gassin & John Pier (eds), L’effacement selon Nabokov : Lolita

A Lacanian Study of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

This paper is an attempt to explore how Lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov’s Lolita. Before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of French poststructuralist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Description Logic Knowledge Base Exchange

Let M = { ∀a, t.(AuthorOf(a, t)→ ∃g.BookInfo(t, a, g)) }, I1 = { AuthorOf(nabokov, lolita), AuthorOf(tolkien, lotr) }. Then I2 = { BookInfo(lolita, nabokov, n1), BookInfo(lotr, tolkien, n2) } is a universal solution. Data Exchange Example Let M = { ∃AuthorOf− v ∃BookGenre, AuthorOf− v WrittenBy, TaxNumber v SSN }, T1 = { ∃AuthorOf v Author, Author v ∃TaxNumber }, A1 = { AuthorOf(nabokov, lolita...

a lacanian study of lolita by vladimir nabokov

this paper is an attempt to explore how lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of vladimir vladimirovich nabokov’s lolita. before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of french poststructuralist and psychoanalyst jacques lacan, freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Nabokov and World Literature

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

Modality in Lolita