Christine Raguet-Bouvart. Vladimir Nabokov.

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...

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,...

Nabokov, Teleology, and Insect Mimicry

Christine Mullin

The disruptions of linkage groups by chromosomal rearrangements can present barriers to the interbreeding of two populations and lead to speciation. These chromosomal changes can be demonstrated through cross-species painting (FergusonSmith et al., 2005). Homologies have been established between human and each of the other hominids as well as many old and new world monkeys and even some prosimi...