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Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on the Film "Lolita"
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Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on the Film "Lolita"
A look at the role Edgar Allan Poe played in Stanley Kubrick's cinematic version of "Lolita."
1,834 words (approx. 7.3 pages) |
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2001
Paper Summary:
This paper presents an analysis of Poe's influence on Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation of Nabokov's novel.From the Paper:
"From this wicked confessional on Humbert Humbert, the protagonist/ doppleganger of Vladimir Nabokov's 1961 novel Lolita, we can begin to explore the question as to the true identity of Lolita, the child nymphet, the Odysseyian siren, the uncorrupted maiden "chaste as morning dew" who destroyed Humbert's mind and life. According to Humbert the diarist."More papers on Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on the Film "Lolita":
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Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on the Film "Lolita" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 14, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Edgar-Allan-Poe's-Influence-on-the-Film-Lolita/1255
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"Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on the Film "Lolita"" 15 January 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Edgar-Allan-Poe's-Influence-on-the-Film-Lolita/1255>
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May 02, 2001 BA in English and American literature, University of Michigan; Life member of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore; PUBLISHING CREDENTIALS: The Atlantic Literary Review (2002); First Knight, Journal of the Irving Society (2002); Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (2002); Monsterzine (2001); Edgar Allan Poe Review (1998); editor for "In All Sincerity. . . Peter Cushing" by Christopher Gullo (2004); lecturer at the 2001 Edgar Allan Poe Conference. Presently at work on "The Theatrical Ancestry of Sir Peter Cushing" and a similar article for Scarlet Street magazine. Published author w/ Bear Manor Media--Lee Van Cleef: Best of the Bad, The Unknown Peter Cushing
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