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Aesthetic Excuses And Moral Crimes: The Convergence Of Morality And Aesthetics In Nabokov's Lolita, Jennifer Elizabeth Green
Aesthetic Excuses And Moral Crimes: The Convergence Of Morality And Aesthetics In Nabokov's Lolita, Jennifer Elizabeth Green
English Theses
This thesis examines the debate between morality and aesthetics that is outlined by Nabokov in Lolita’s afterword. Incorporating a discussion of Lolita’s critical history in order to reveal how critics have chosen a single, limited side of the debate, either the moral or aesthetic, this thesis seeks to expose the complexities of the novel where morality and aesthetics intersect. First, the general moral and aesthetic features of Lolita are discussed. Finally, I address the two together, illustrating how Lolita cannot be categorized as immoral, amoral, or didactic. Instead, it is through the juxtaposition of form and content, parody and reality, …
The Footnote, In Theory, Anne H. Stevens, Jay Williams
The Footnote, In Theory, Anne H. Stevens, Jay Williams
English Faculty Research
And, so, when Richard Stern published his private dialogue with himself about the physical appearance of certain writers at the 1986 International PEN conference, Joyce Carol Oates insisted on not only an angry rebuttal-punctuated by constant page referencing to Stern's "pig-souled sexism"-but photographic evidence-a kind of footnote in itself-dismissing his physical characterization of her. When Susan Gubar published "What Ails Feminist Criticism?" her essay provoked an immediate, critical, and heavily documented response from Robyn Weigman, several letters to the editor, and Gubar's own footnoted rejoinder. Jane Gallop's defense of a sexual act she engaged in with one of her students …