Notes on the Morphology of the Genus Lycæides (Lycænidæ, Lepidoptera) by V. Nabokov

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Notes on Neotropical Plebejinæ (Lycænidæ, Lepidoptera) by V. Nabokov

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Southern Pierids in New England by V. Nabokov

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Geôle, enjôler, enjoliver : surveiller et (p)unir dans Lolita by René Alladaye

“…Nabokov writes in “On a book entitled Lolita” that the “initial shiver of inspiration” that triggered the composition of the novel was prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes which had produced a drawing representing the bars of its cage. …”
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Chasser le naturel : le préjugé métaphysique de Lolita by Antoine Traisnel

“…This article argues that literature for Nabokov engages reality with a skeptic’s eye, going so far as to posit the absolute sovereignty of the former. …”
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Voiles et caravansérails : l’Orient dans Lolita by Monica Manolescu

“…The Oriental paradigm in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is both explicit (Oriental elements crop up regularly in the novel) and diffuse, in the sense that it offers a model for the development of spatial and narrative progress in the text. …”
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Qui d’autre ? by Jacques Neefs

“…Kafka, Conrad, Nabokov, Michon, shared a common admiration for Flaubert, and for the deep and empathetic implication of his prose. …”
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Reading Under Observation: délire Lolita by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe

“…This article aims at, if not answering, at least raising the question: What is it exactly that we read when we read Lolita? If Vladimir Nabokov’s narrator overtly plays with his readers, he too, whether he knows it or not, is being toyed with. …”
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The demonstrative THAT and the elaboration of reference: a case of linguistic accommodation by Élise Mignot

“…Our set of data is taken from the novel Lolita (Nabokov 1955), in which we conducted an inventory of THIS and THAT noun phrases (877 occurrences).…”
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