Humbert's Arctic Adventures: Some Intertextual Explorations
This article attempts to explore the intertextual potential of the arctic episode in Lolita (part I, chapter 9), which has received little critical attention, and to analyze its place within the structure of the novel. Besides the overt reference to Melville's Pierre ("Pierre Point in Melv...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/nab.0.0006 2024-05-19T07:35:01+00:00 Humbert's Arctic Adventures: Some Intertextual Explorations Manolescu-Oancea, Monica 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nab.0.0006 en eng Project MUSE Nabokov Studies volume 11, issue 1 ISSN 1548-9965 journal-article 2007 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.0.0006 2024-05-02T09:27:08Z This article attempts to explore the intertextual potential of the arctic episode in Lolita (part I, chapter 9), which has received little critical attention, and to analyze its place within the structure of the novel. Besides the overt reference to Melville's Pierre ("Pierre Point in Melville Sound"), I also take into account a number of diffuse intertextual echoes coming from Shakespeare's Othello and from Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym . Beyond the attempt to combine the annotation and interpretation of this particular episode, I also try to offer a covert meditation on Nabokovian intertextuality in general (which the author tended to present as a precise science in which specific pointers signal a precise source). My conclusion establishes a link between Humbert's arctic Canada and Alaska, the place of Lolita's death, and I argue that the two could be seen as avatars of Nabokov's "distant northern land," of Ultima Thule and Zembla. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Alaska Johns Hopkins University Press Nabokov Studies 11 1 |
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This article attempts to explore the intertextual potential of the arctic episode in Lolita (part I, chapter 9), which has received little critical attention, and to analyze its place within the structure of the novel. Besides the overt reference to Melville's Pierre ("Pierre Point in Melville Sound"), I also take into account a number of diffuse intertextual echoes coming from Shakespeare's Othello and from Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym . Beyond the attempt to combine the annotation and interpretation of this particular episode, I also try to offer a covert meditation on Nabokovian intertextuality in general (which the author tended to present as a precise science in which specific pointers signal a precise source). My conclusion establishes a link between Humbert's arctic Canada and Alaska, the place of Lolita's death, and I argue that the two could be seen as avatars of Nabokov's "distant northern land," of Ultima Thule and Zembla. |
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