Rodgers, M. (2011) Lolita's nietzchean morality. Philosophy and Literature, 35 (1). pp. 104-120.
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This essay wakes the sleeping dog that is Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Rejecting the critical consensus suggesting that it has the ability to educate morally its readers, this essay, instead, heralds the idea that Lolita is a critique of morality. Focusing on the text's similarities with Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, I aim to negate the various interpretations that argue that Nabokov's cause célèbre houses a traditionally virtuous morality. By examining Nabokov's literary technique and illustrating how this, at a meta-level, echoes Nietzsche's philosophy of a "transvaluation of all values," I argue that Lolita forces readers to inhabit a disorientating Nietzschean world
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 40548 |
| Keywords: | olita's , nietzchean morality, nietzchean , morality, lolita, vladimir nabokov , critique, virtuous morality, nietzschean world, English |
| Subjects: | Language and Literature > English |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > English |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2012 14:01 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 14:24 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40548 |
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