Vladimir Nabokov

Tamir-Ghez, Nomi. The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov’s Lolita. 2002

Author(s)
Bibliographic title
The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov’s Lolita
Collection editor
Periodical or collection
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: A Casebook
Page(s)
17-38
Publication year
Abstract
Booth discusses Lolita as an example of a novel in which a “vicious center of consciousness” (Humbert) with “full and unlimited control of the rhetorical resources” (390) almost makes a case for himself.