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

• Main Author: Kwok, Michelle Jia Yu.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52183
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...