On-Line Acquisitions by LOLITA

Modality in Lolita

Teaching Lolita Through Pushkin’s Onegin

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...

CHAPTER 11 Reviving Lolita ?

First, there was the book. Then there was the 1962 film followed by yet another filmic version in 1997 of Nabokov's (1958) infamous best seller Lolita. Simultaneously repulsive and fascinating mediated por­ trayals of young girls as inviting and willing participants in their own sexual exploitation have fueled many a male fantasy. Sexualized images of girls are not only found between the covers...

On Humbert Humbert’s Mental Disease in Nabokov’s Lolita