9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Lolita (redirected fromLolitas) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Lo·li·ta (lō-lē′tə) n. A sexually precocious girl. [AfterLolita,, the heroine ofLolita,a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.] ...
“Rococo (Rococo)” is a word from French “rocaille”. It contains the meaning of ” spiral shell”. the spiral shell is used to describe the kind of plastic art in the use of curve lines and complicated decorative style. Rococo is mainly used in the style of interior decoration, which...
, and considers the differences of paradigms in iconicity research: (1) iconicity as a permanent property of a sign; imitation pattern - form mimes meaning; (2) iconicity as a variable quality of a sign, actualized by the speaker; imitation pattern - form miming form; (3) iconicity as ...
giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest.(17 years old)Timeline1923a childhood dream,Annabel, the very beginning
As with Joyce and Melville, the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall “meaning,” while at the same time having to struggle with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve ...
Though there is a larger consideration of whether Lolita could be published in our current climate, considering all of the recent bad-faith efforts to intuit literal meaning in what are clearly obvious, if tasteless, jokes. And while I hope the answer is still yes, because even after all ...
It is argued that the term 'Lolita' has a culturally specific meaning and that it has a different meaning in Western culture to that in Japan. This has led to a misperception of aspects of Japanese society and its cultural products such as anime. Furthermore it is argued that rorikon ...
If you’ve never been to the Morgan Library, it is a museum devoted to art and literature (think lots of first editions). As part of the 150 anniversary of this novel fairytale, theMorgan Library and Museumwill house the original manuscript, as well as “an engaging account of the genesi...
At first, I planned to take a degree in psychiatry and many manquи talents do; but I was even more manquи than that; a peculiar exhaustion, I am so oppressed, doctor, set in; and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds...
Elvira is a name of perhaps Spanish origin that may have meant "white" but is most frequently given as meaning "true". Elvira meaning "true" takes me back to Quilty's Drome ad which advertizes "real true taste". It's the image of Quilty as the psychologist in shot 369 that helps pi...