'The Pure Products of America Go Crazy' Defamiliarizing American Language and Culture in Lolita and The Crying of Lot 49

My thesis centers on Lolita and The Crying of Lot 49 and the ways in which both novels defamiliarize our world and ways of thinking. Both novels use formal literary techniques as a way of making ordinary cultural artifacts, situations, and environments seem unfamiliar from our every day perceptions....

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Main Author: Lam, Melissa Karmen
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. English 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/942