“The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: the dizzying effects of embedded structures and meta-artistic devices in Lolita, novel and film”
This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/spectator is engaged by the literary and film...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/1737 |
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| Summary: | This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/spectator is engaged by the literary and filmic narratives. As underscored by Lucien Dallenbach, internal duplications or self-reflexive devices are double-layered: they serve a purpose in the fictional universe, and have a reflexive function aimed at disclosing one of the text’s components. Self-reflexivity entails a game between the creator and his audience that is taking place outside of the diegetic world. This paper studies the function of self-reflexive devices by first focusing upon some self-reflexive features of both works, then on the prospective mises en abyme, and finally, on the main retro-prospective mise en abyme of the story, the Enchanted Hunters/Hunted Enchanters play, in both novel and film. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |