Fixing the borderline : beauty in Pale Fire and Lolita.

• Main Author: Lim, Deborah Ying Shan.
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52223
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Vladimir Nabokov’s novels seem to hold, for many, a strange fascination. This essay began as an inquiry into the inexplicable enchantment of Nabokov’s language. I had the idea of studying the elements of prose style, in order to ascertain what it is that draws so many readers, for instance, to the s...