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Montana State University-Bozeman English Teaching Minor, History Teaching Major, I plan to student teach Spring '08

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

7 Aspects of the Nabokov Novel...and then some


Parody
Coincidence
Patterning
Allusion
Work within a work
Staging of novel
authorial
these are on page xxvii

Art
Curiosity, Tenderness, Kindness, Ecstasy, and when that state of being is the norm

Lolita is a work of fiction only so far as it works as aesthetic (felt or perceived in beauty)bliss-there is no moral to the story

Obsession is narcisstic, claustrophib, pathological
Obsessive love is a perverse love, but still a love

Lewis Carrol obsessed with young girlds between certain ages (NYMPHETS)
Charles Dickens obsessed with Red Riding Hood

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