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The Enchanted Hunters in Nabokov’s Lolita
Get PDFIn Nabokov’s Lolita, Humbert Humbert’s The Enchanted Hunters, as a quest for love, aims to reconstruct a felicitous world or integrate various fragmentary details into an organic unity that revives a lost love, experiencing it on the basis of irony, and revealing a simulation of the desire, violence, and despondency which have been expressed in myths of nymphs and Persephone. The protagonist never reaches this unity, but his narrative of erotic and romantic love reveals him as a pathetic addict engaged in mechanical reproduction related to the phenomena of desire, seduction, violence, and sex. His The Enchanted Hunters does not simulate what he expects of his childhood love with Annabel; rather, it simulates the erotic imagination suggested in Mary D. Sheriff’s term “nymphomania,” in which artists fall degenerately to a model of tragedy
James A. Brundage. — Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe.
No full textBullough Vern L. James A. Brundage. — Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe.. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 32e année (n°128), Octobre-décembre 1989. pp. 361-362
Mary E. Fissell Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 283 pp. index. illus. bibl. $74. ISBN: 0-19-926988-2.
No full textNancy G. Siraisi. Arts and Sciences at Padua: The Studium of Padua before 1350. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1973. 199 pp. $10.50.
No full textLinda Mahood. The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall. 1990. Pp. x, 205. $39.95.
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Stillman Drake. Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1970. 289 pp. $8.50.
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