Current Search: Nabokov,Vladimir Vladimiroviæc, 1899-1977 (x)
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Title
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Media voyeurs in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
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Creator
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Krupski, Maureen P., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Abstract/Description
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Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, most often noted for its critique on consumerism in post-war America and the conflict between Old World European values with New World American ones, contains an equally strong critique on consumerism of media. Lolita's narrative style, the memoir of a pedophile and murderer simultaneously seeking absolution and applause, investigates the relationship between a seductive mass media and its prurient and Puritanical audience. Implicit in the narrative technique...
Show moreVladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, most often noted for its critique on consumerism in post-war America and the conflict between Old World European values with New World American ones, contains an equally strong critique on consumerism of media. Lolita's narrative style, the memoir of a pedophile and murderer simultaneously seeking absolution and applause, investigates the relationship between a seductive mass media and its prurient and Puritanical audience. Implicit in the narrative technique is the audience's own participation in the mediation of reality.
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Date Issued
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2007
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/40971
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Mass media and culture, Postmodernism
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Format
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Document (PDF)
