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Description
Title
Metaparody in Selected Literary Works
Author(s)
Rutsala, Kirsten May
Issue Date
1999
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Temira Pachmuss
Department of Study
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Discipline
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, American
Language
eng
Abstract
"In Lolita, Nabokov's Humbert seems to be a metaparody of the underground man. Both narrators compose confessions which alternate between candor and obfuscation, between pronouncements of their guilt and self-justifying declarations of innocence. The most significant ""revision"" of Notes from the Underground in Lolita is Humbert's relative success as an artist. While the underground man's notes are circular and unending, Humbert's confession is complete and symmetrical, a transformation of experience into art."
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