Lolita Sparknotes

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THIS ESSAY OFFERS AN ANALYSIS UNDER SAUSSURE’S THEORY OF STRUCTURALISM, ___ THEORY OF NARRATOLOGY AND EXPLORES THE FUNDAMENTAL BASIS THESE THEORIES SHARE. MY THESIS WILL ANALYSE BOOTH’S DEFINITION OF ‘UNRELIABLE NARRATION’, AS WELL AS OPPOSING CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE TERM FROM OTHER LITERARY CRITICS TO DETERMINE THE RELIABILITY OF HUMBERT HUMBERT’S NARRATION IN VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S NOVEL LOLITA AND CONCLUDE ON THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF HIS NARRATIVE.
Vladimir Nabokov’s most critically acclaimed novel Lolita has been a talking point for literary critics since its publication in1955 “…Yet, its particular mix of complex prose, and troublesome subject matter continues to produce outcries” (Reference), proving to be so controversial and provocative that …show more content…

This dynamic gender binary is established by the opposition of the narrator Humbert Humbert and Lolita. This opposition of the story’s primary characters serves to remind the audience of the hegemonic relationship between thirteen year old Lolita and Humbert. Asserting the dominance of Humbets character throughout his narration.
The common occurrence in Lolita to mirror by parody and binary opposition is not limited to such. An essay by ___ brings attention to the mirroring of the word “Lolita” being both the first and last word of the novel’s general narration, this contextualises the stories focal point and examines the correlation between the introduction and conclusion providing a structural element to the novel, which many critics analyse as lacking such. This inaugural idea of binaries within Lolita
Derived and influenced by early forms of Structuralism, Narratology which was brought together by Vladimir Propp’s book Morfologiya skazki (1928; Morphology of the Folk Tale) and his theory’s regarding the 31 ‘functions’ in narratives, scrutinizes the concept of a text and the nature of the story and its presentation. Structuralism and Narratology share a mutual idea concerning the common literary language that functions within the textual aspects of a work (Encyclopedia Britannica). Granting Narratology theory has achieved some independence from its predecessor Structuralism, the theory also draws heavily upon the study of

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