Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.

Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.

This essay will explore the treatment of loss and grief in Vladimir Nabokov's novels Pale Fire and Lolita. I will argue that the narrators of Pale Fire and Lolita grapple with loss and grief through language. Both novels use language to reveal the myriad possibilities of life, exploring alterna...

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Main Author: Kwok, Michelle Jia Yu.
Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-521832019-12-10T14:36:40Z Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire. Kwok, Michelle Jia Yu. Andrew Corey Yerkes School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature This essay will explore the treatment of loss and grief in Vladimir Nabokov's novels Pale Fire and Lolita. I will argue that the narrators of Pale Fire and Lolita grapple with loss and grief through language. Both novels use language to reveal the myriad possibilities of life, exploring alternative realities such as fantasy worlds and even the afterlife. These creative attempts to deal with loss result in evocations of life amidst loss. Such evocations, coupled with the invigorative qualities of literary recreation, consequently help the narrators alleviate their feelings of pain and grief accompanying loss. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-24T08:35:46Z 2013-04-24T08:35:46Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52183 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf
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Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.
description This essay will explore the treatment of loss and grief in Vladimir Nabokov's novels Pale Fire and Lolita. I will argue that the narrators of Pale Fire and Lolita grapple with loss and grief through language. Both novels use language to reveal the myriad possibilities of life, exploring alternative realities such as fantasy worlds and even the afterlife. These creative attempts to deal with loss result in evocations of life amidst loss. Such evocations, coupled with the invigorative qualities of literary recreation, consequently help the narrators alleviate their feelings of pain and grief accompanying loss.
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author Kwok, Michelle Jia Yu.
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title Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.
title_short Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.
title_full Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.
title_fullStr Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.
title_full_unstemmed Postmodernism and loss : evocations of life amidst loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire.
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