Posts Tagged ‘Lolita’
Universe of Desire
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
My choice to reimagine scenes from The Scarlet Letter, Lolita, and Middlesex in the context of 21st century technology, specifically the internet, came from three factors. One is the “Universe of Desire” exhibit at the Museum of Sex, which showcased the collision of sex and internet and blurring of publicity and anonymous “privacy.” The exhibit […]
Universe of Desire
Tags: Internet, Lolita, Middlesex, Private, Public, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in Final Projects, Vita Xie | No Comments »
Calliope/Cal: A Trustworthy Narrator, Thanks to Eugenides
Monday, April 30th, 2012
I really, really enjoy Calliope/Cal’s tone in Middlesex. Give the credit given to author Jeffrey Eugenides, Calliope/Cal has the ability to help the reader capture the full emotional value of images, actions and sequences without the excessive reliance of adjectives. I was beyond moved reading the passage when Dr. Philobosian was walking through his home […]
Calliope/Cal: A Trustworthy Narrator, Thanks to Eugenides
Tags: Calliope/Cal, Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Middlesex, Narrative, syntax
Posted in May 1, Peter Panousopoulos | No Comments »
Coitus.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Though I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I wasn’t very shocked by the direction Nabokov steered his novel plot-wise. The foreshadowing of Clare Quilty’s increased significance was present dating back to Dolores’ poster of him when she was still a nymphet. In the foreword, we already know that Humbert is in some sort of legal […]
Coitus.
Tags: coitus, Homosexuality, Humbert, kinsey, Lolita, Obsession
Posted in April 3, Peter Panousopoulos | No Comments »
Suspended between Lolita and Lucidity
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Sorry for the late post! I wasn’t quite to the end of part two last night and wanted to finish it before writing. First of all, wow! I have so much respect for Nabokov as an author! He has total mastery over language, mood, and his audience. I know there is no “real” author present, […]
Suspended between Lolita and Lucidity
Tags: Humbert Humbert, Identity, Illusion, Lolita, Memory, Nabokov
Posted in April 3, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Selfish Hum and Poor Lo
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Oh Lolita, my Lolita, I have begun to feel for you! Dear Humbert was endearing and charming when his having Lo was but a fantasy. However, what I read in Part Two of Lolita eroded my warm feelings toward Humbert Humbert. How could they not when he admitted to threatening Dolores for sex? “I relied […]
Selfish Hum and Poor Lo
Tags: Humbert, incest, Lolita, moral apotheosis, Quilty
Posted in April 3, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Well played, Nabokov, well played
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
At the end of Lolita, I felt kind of regretful that I did not borrow/purchase the annotated version because of all the references and word plays I am bound to have missed. I appreciate that this novel was split up into two classes: after our initial discussion, I approached reading part two differently than part […]
Well played, Nabokov, well played
Tags: Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Nabokov, Obsession, Quilty
Posted in April 3, Vita Xie | No Comments »
Humbert is pleasantly entertaining =S
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
We’re able to paint a clear picture of the world’s sexual history with what we’ve seen in the Museum of Sex and read in Peiss this past week. I’ll get to Humbert later on. I spent a lot of time in the first room of the museum reading about the gradually increasing push in the […]
Humbert is pleasantly entertaining =S
Tags: Guilty pleasure, Helplessness, Heterosexuality, Humbert, Lolita, Museum of Sex, Natural, Obsession, Twentieth Century
Posted in March 27, Peter Panousopoulos, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Loooleeta On My Mind
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Lolita, Lo-lee-ta, Lo. Lee. Ta. I love it—I love this book! Vladamir Nabokov gets into your head and leaves behind Lolita, Lolita, Lolita. What a magnificent novel to read, especially in light of Foucault, and refreshing after the more restrained The Scarlet Letter. And yet, after visiting The Museum of Sex, there is no way […]
Loooleeta On My Mind
Tags: Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lolita, Museum of Sex, The Deployment of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Constructing Sexuality
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
After visiting the Museum of Sex in combination with reading Lolita and this weeks documents I have noticed a strong trend in sexuality -the attempt to construct some ideal that arises from an illusion/fantasy. In the museum I was struck by the simulator in the BDSM exhibit on the second floor. This sort of “create […]
Constructing Sexuality
Tags: Fantasy, Foucault, Lolita, Power-Relations, The Deployment of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Whitney Porter | No Comments »