"Alice in Wonderland", "Lolita": The Eccentric Narration of womanhood

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Πολιτισμικές και Κινηματογραφικές Σπουδές
Library of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Deposit date:
2018-06-11
Year:
2018
Author:
Giavi Dimitra
Supervisors info:
Έλλη Φιλοκύπρου, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και ΜΜΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
«Η Αλίκη στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων», «Λολίτα»: Η Έκκεντρη Αφήγηση της Ενηλικίωσης
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
"Alice in Wonderland", "Lolita": The Eccentric Narration of womanhood
Summary:
Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita are two novels that have become widely known not only at the time of their publication but also later on, while they have also been established as two classical literary masterpieces. A narrative with multiple conceptual extensions addressed to both children and adults, and a story of an adult man's controversial love for his twelve-year-old stepdaughter, Alice in Wonderland and Lolita are two inter-related novels, even though they were composed a century apart. This essay aims at detecting the inter-relation of the two novels, using as its central axis the issue of adulthood, and employing the psychoanalytic theory of S. Freud and J. Lacan as a methodological approach, while it also researches the connection of the two novels with their respective cultural backgrounds, that of Victorian Britain and that of America of the 1950s. Moreover it focuses on the adaptations of the novels in subsequent decades, so as to explore the myths of Alice and Lolita, as they have been impressed in collective memory.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Other subject categories:
Philosophy - Psychology
Keywords:
alice in wonderland, lolita, psychoanalysis, womanhood
Index:
Yes
Number of index pages:
1
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
65
Number of pages:
83
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