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From: "Ellen Pifer" <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu>
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> In connection with the theme of her doctoral dissertation, Marie Bouchet
> may find Jenefer Shute's article, "'So Nakedly Dressed': The Text of the
> Female Body in Nabokov's Novels," particularly relevant. It is reprinted
> in a recently published volume of essays on *Lolita* that I edited:
> *Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA: A Casebook. New York: Oxford Univ. Press,
> 2003.
>
> Several other essays in the volume, including Beth Sweeney's "'Ballet
> Attitudes': Nabokov's LOLITA and Petipa's THE SLEEPING BEAUTY," and mine
> on "Nabokov's Novel Offspring: Lolita and Her Kin" (reprinted from my
> book, *Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and
> Culture* (2000), may also prove of interest.
>
> The paperback costs $17.95; the cover reproduces Bathus's LES BEAUX JOURS,
> which depicts a young girl, sprawled on a velvet chaise longue, gazing at
> herself in a hand mirror while a mysterious male figure stokes a blazing
> fire in the background.
>
> Ellen Pifer
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
> > To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> > >
> > > My name is Marie Bouchet, and I am currently progressing through a
> > doctoral
> > > thesis in 20th century American literature at the University of
Bordeaux
> > > under the supervision of Christine Raguet-Bouvart, Professor at La
> > Sorbonne
> > > University. I am working on maiden figures in Vladimir Nabokov's
English
> > > fiction, and my thesis deals with the characterization of those
recurring
> > > figures from a thematic, stylistic, and intertextual point of view.
Hence
> > I
> > > intend to explore the issues of the representation of body and desire
in
> > > literature. I am not interested in any biographical reason for the
> > > omnipresence of young ladies in Nabokov's works, but in the aesthetic
> > > tensions underlying the representation of a body in metamorphosis, at
the
> > > threshold of childhood and adulthood, between innocence and seduction.
I
> > am
> > > thus also reflecting upon the strategies to fix in words and images
the
> > > fluctuating nature of maidens, chasing them like butterflies through
the
> > > never-completed descriptions and portraits which resort to strategies
of
> > > displacement (hypallages, synecdoches, intertextual and pictorial
> > > allusions).
> > > Marie C. Bouchet
> >
> > >
> >
>
From: "Ellen Pifer" <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (53
lines) ------------------
> In connection with the theme of her doctoral dissertation, Marie Bouchet
> may find Jenefer Shute's article, "'So Nakedly Dressed': The Text of the
> Female Body in Nabokov's Novels," particularly relevant. It is reprinted
> in a recently published volume of essays on *Lolita* that I edited:
> *Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA: A Casebook. New York: Oxford Univ. Press,
> 2003.
>
> Several other essays in the volume, including Beth Sweeney's "'Ballet
> Attitudes': Nabokov's LOLITA and Petipa's THE SLEEPING BEAUTY," and mine
> on "Nabokov's Novel Offspring: Lolita and Her Kin" (reprinted from my
> book, *Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and
> Culture* (2000), may also prove of interest.
>
> The paperback costs $17.95; the cover reproduces Bathus's LES BEAUX JOURS,
> which depicts a young girl, sprawled on a velvet chaise longue, gazing at
> herself in a hand mirror while a mysterious male figure stokes a blazing
> fire in the background.
>
> Ellen Pifer
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
> > To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (67
> > lines) ------------------
> > >
> > > My name is Marie Bouchet, and I am currently progressing through a
> > doctoral
> > > thesis in 20th century American literature at the University of
Bordeaux
> > > under the supervision of Christine Raguet-Bouvart, Professor at La
> > Sorbonne
> > > University. I am working on maiden figures in Vladimir Nabokov's
English
> > > fiction, and my thesis deals with the characterization of those
recurring
> > > figures from a thematic, stylistic, and intertextual point of view.
Hence
> > I
> > > intend to explore the issues of the representation of body and desire
in
> > > literature. I am not interested in any biographical reason for the
> > > omnipresence of young ladies in Nabokov's works, but in the aesthetic
> > > tensions underlying the representation of a body in metamorphosis, at
the
> > > threshold of childhood and adulthood, between innocence and seduction.
I
> > am
> > > thus also reflecting upon the strategies to fix in words and images
the
> > > fluctuating nature of maidens, chasing them like butterflies through
the
> > > never-completed descriptions and portraits which resort to strategies
of
> > > displacement (hypallages, synecdoches, intertextual and pictorial
> > > allusions).
> > > Marie C. Bouchet
> >
> > >
> >
>