Premium Content Vladimir Nabokov's Techiniques of Rhetoric in Lolita
By Matthew Seminara - December 08, 2002
In this brief essay, I will draw upon Lolita to demonstrate how Vladimir
Nabokov uses the techniques of rhetoric to create an explication of the female body, encapsulated in the characters of both the adolescent Lolita and her older, less nubile mother, Charlotte.
In the novel, we as readers are presented with the spectacle of a man facing the awful…
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