Media voyeurs in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

Author

• Maureen P. Krupski

Date of Award

2007

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, most often noted for its critique on consumerism in post-war America and the conflict between Old World European values with New World American ones, contains an equally strong critique on consumerism of media. Lolita's narrative style, the memoir of a pedophile and murderer simultaneously seeking absolution and applause, investigates the relationship between a seductive mass media and its prurient and Puritanical audience. Implicit in the narrative technique is the audience's own participation in the mediation of reality.

Comments

by Maureen P. Krupski.

Recommended Citation

Krupski, Maureen P., "Media voyeurs in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita" (2007). Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2003 - 2009. 34.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_honors_1/34

Extent

vi, 47 leaves.

Identifier

309288114