Humbert Humbert and Class
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Humbert Humbert and Class From the outset of Nabokov’s Lolita, it is apparent that issues of culture and class will be of considerable importance to the unfolding of the narrative. Humbert Humbert is born of parents of different ethnic backgrounds and grows up in the life of a privileged child in Western Europe. His early […]
Humbert Humbert and Class
Tags: Humbert, social class
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Power and Problematic Sexualities
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Power and Problematic Sexualities Foucault finally started to make sense to me with The Deployment of Sexuality. Maybe it’s because Part 4 is much more linear, but I am just relieved to feel a little less lost. In his “Method” section, Foucault effectively dispels the rest of the ideas I had about power in relation […]
Power and Problematic Sexualities
Tags: abstinence-only, bloodline, bourgeois, contraception, degenerescence, economics, eugenics, family, female hysteria, heredity, onanism, perversion, power, problematic sexualities, protection, social class, socioeconomic
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