This thesis examines desire in Nabokov's Lolita in order to explore the nature of representation and to suggest another way to read this controversial text.

Humbert’s passing phrase—“photographic memory”—may appear to be a playful, yet eager attempt to credit his self-centered narrative focus and persuasive control of language with photography’s apparent believability. But for ...

I have chosen to write my thesis on Vladimir Nabokov’s late novel, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. In my thesis I invoke Henri Bergson’s treatise on duration, Time and Free Will as well as Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, ...