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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Foucault’s, The History of Sexuality, I first have to mention how much I liked his style of writing. I feel that so many philosophical writers become entirely too entangled in their own “brilliant” opinions, and they fail to convey not only the overarching message of their insights, but also the relevance of those insights. […]
