Discursive Killings: Intertextuality, Aestheticization, and Death in Nabokov's Lolita

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Discursive Killings: Intertextuality, Aestheticization, and Death in Nabokov's Lolita

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ID	79997
Author(s)	Schweighauser, Philipp
Author(s) at UniBasel	Schweighauser, Philipp
Year	1999
Title	Discursive Killings: Intertextuality, Aestheticization, and Death in Nabokov's Lolita
Journal	Amerikastudien
Volume	44
Number	2
Pages / Article-Number	255-267
Abstract	This essay argues that Nabokov's Lolita is suffused with a rhetoric of death. Humbert Humbert's discursive constructions of Lolita trap her in a semantic web of death that conjures up her literal death in childbed at the age of seventeen. My reading of Lolita traces the fibres of that web in the more sinister implications of Humbert's intertextual references, his persistent gestures of aestheticization and his reflections on the nature of nymphets.
Publisher	Universitätsverlag Winter
ISSN/ISBN	0340-2827
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A5250702
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