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'Love at First Sight, at Last Sight, at Ever and Ever Sight': Scrutinizing Lolita's Body
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 79998
Author(s) Schweighauser, P
Author(s) at UniBasel Schweighauser, Philipp
Year 2000
Title 'Love at First Sight, at Last Sight, at Ever and Ever Sight': Scrutinizing Lolita's Body
Journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Volume 48
Number 2
Pages / Article-Number 158-167
Abstract This article examines some of the more disquieting strains in Nabokov's Lolita. It argues that the novel's field of vision is structured in a way that links Humbert's gaze with his filmic and photographic imagination. More general reflections on the nature of cinematography and photography lead to a reconsideration of Lolita's premature death as a literalization of the more sinister implications of Humbert's artistic aspirations. Humbert's modernist quest for knowledge is shown to coincide with a cinematic and photographic discourse that engulfs Lolita in a semantic web of death. It will be argued that Lyne's recent cinematic adaptation of the novel lacks precisely in its omission of these morbid undertones.
Publisher Königshausen & Neumann
ISSN/ISBN 0044-2305
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A5250703
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ISI-Number WOS:000167671400005
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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