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- Title
Nabokov's Nomadic Humor: "Lolita."
- Authors
Wepler, Ryan
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov in which the author explores Nabokov's sense of humor in relation his detached literary perspective of being an outsider in the U.S. is presented. Topics include the incongruity/ambiguity humor of protagonist Humbert Humbert, themes of wordplay and manipulation of language, and Humbert's nomadism as a personal system of meaning outside of pre-constructed forms of signification.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; LOLITA (Book : Nabokov); HUMBERT, Humbert (Fictional character); NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; HUMOR in literature; DISCOURSE analysis; NOMADS in literature
- Publication
College Literature, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 4, p76
- ISSN
0093-3139
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/lit.2011.0045