Lolitas, or the Story of a Structural Otherness
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2004.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Following the 1955 publication of Nabokov’s novel, « physically attractive, flirtatious young girls giving the impression of ingenuous naïveté » (Petit Robert dictionary) are indifferently designated by the terms lolita or nymphet : potential women whose bodies have yet to undergo the upheavals associated with motherhood. A nymph also designates the chrysalis of certain insects whose larvae, while undergoing a transformation into a reproductive creature, conserves its juvenile characteristics. What might be the meaning of this connection between prepubescent « innocent » femininity and an inferior animal such as an insect ? The analysis of certain works of science fiction may provide the key.
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Following the 1955 publication of Nabokov’s novel, « physically attractive, flirtatious young girls giving the impression of ingenuous naïveté » (Petit Robert dictionary) are indifferently designated by the terms lolita or nymphet : potential women whose bodies have yet to undergo the upheavals associated with motherhood. A nymph also designates the chrysalis of certain insects whose larvae, while undergoing a transformation into a reproductive creature, conserves its juvenile characteristics. What might be the meaning of this connection between prepubescent « innocent » femininity and an inferior animal such as an insect ? The analysis of certain works of science fiction may provide the key.
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