De Dolores, CO à Lolita, TX : Détours et retours à travers "the crazy quilt of forty-eight states"

America structures Nabokov’s most famous novel, Lolita. The novel provides a double mapping process: that of the desired body of the nymphet, and that of the vast country where one finds towns called Dolores and Lolita. In Lolita, the landscape is a projection of the heroine on a huge scale. The cou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marie Bouchet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2006-06-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/2344