Humbert the Lyrical Girlizer & Ultimate Misogynist
Monday, April 8th, 2013
In Part I of Lolita, I was most struck by Humbert Humbert’s multi-faceted psychological perception of himself. I focused my previous post around Humbert the Adam figure vs. Humbert the Devil figure, and in class we discussed a number of his other manifestations. Since entering into Part II of Lolita, a new archetype has occurred […]
Humbert the Lyrical Girlizer & Ultimate Misogynist
Tags: Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Milan Kundera, misogyny, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Vladimir Nabokov, womanizers
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Humbert the (Mad) (Creator)
Monday, March 18th, 2013
This being my second time reading Lolita, I went for an annotated version, that I might pick up on a few of the frequent and obscure references dispersed throughout the novel, or at least have the translations of Humbert’s French conveniently compiled. Similarly, in approaching the text from a more critical readership, I expected this […]
Humbert the (Mad) (Creator)
Tags: Adam & Eve, Confession, creation mythology, Lolita, medicalization, Scientia-Sexualis, Vladimir Nabokov
Posted in March 19, Sophia Curran | 1 Comment »
