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Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, 1998.
A look at several of the short stories of Vladimir Nabokov, and the writing patterns in them.
1,616 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 52.95
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This paper is a look at famous author Vladimir Nabokov, the premier ?migr? author from Russia. This paper looks at several of Nabokov?s short stories and, in accordance with is own personal history, attempts to discover a pattern, if you will, for his writing style. It goes on to suggest possible reasons for this pattern and how the patterns fits his stories. The stories used include: "Signs and Symbols", "A Russian Beauty", and "Breaking the News".
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Author Vladimir Nabokov.
This paper discusses the author Vladimir Nabokov and especially three of his works, "Lolita," "That in Aleppo Once...," and "Conversation Piece".
3,330 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper explains Nabokov's ultimate theme is the meaning and loss of identity, the moment where the soul is either subsumed into another or finds its grounds for resistance. The author points out that Nabokov creates a grand insecurity of being through words and through story and forces his readers to confront the fact that they themselves are no more stable in their being than are the characters they peruse. The paper relates that the Nabokov's infamous work, "Lolita," is a sordidly poetic novel representing in microcosm much of the pathos and glory of all his work.
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"Both short stories, "That in Aleppo Once..." and "Conversation Piece," have in common themes, which address the high costs of turning other living people into fantasies. In "Conversation Piece" there are certain obvious costs, such as the way that the narrator is consistently getting arrested, molested, or harrassed in place of his double. However, there is also an undertheme of the more severe costs of fantasizing others rather than letting them be themselves. This is evident in the narrator's inability to express his opinions regarding the harms, which Nazi-ism had done to the women who probably needed to hear it, because he could not get past his stereotype of them as blind and sterile individuals, and his vision of Germans as murders or worse."
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Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", 2005.
Analysis of Vladimir Nabokov's famous 20th century novel, "Lolita".
1,839 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper summarizes Nabokov's novel about an older man?s obsessive love and lustful desire for a young girl and points out that, however beautifully written the novel, sexuality between an adult and child is as morally unacceptable and criminally punishable today as it was in the mid-Fifties when the story was written.
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"Humbert begins his manuscript expressing his passion and love for ?Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul?. standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita? (Nabokov pp 9). Nabokov?s character then goes on to describe his childhood and his adolescent relationship with the ?girl-child,? Annabel, whom he referred to as the ?precursor? to Lolita (Nabokov pp 9). Of Humbert?s encounter with Annabel, Nabokov writes that she would ?let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward fist the scepter of my passion? (Nabokov pp 15). This brief sexual encounter ended before climax when the two were interrupted by chance onlookers. Annabel died some four months later."
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Novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Albert Camus, 2005.
A look at the theme of individual freedom as expressed in Nabokov's "Lolita" and Camus's "The Stranger".
2,112 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes how the theme of individual freedom or free will is depicted through each author's characterization of their protagonists, including events that helped reinforce the deviant behavior that they had decided to adopt and exercise in their rigidly conservative society.
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"Camus elucidates the main argument that this paper presents: in the preface to "The Stranger," he identifies the character of Meursault, the novel's protagonist, suffering a downfall "because he does not play the game." In this paper, the characters' inability to 'play the game' that society sets out for each individual leads to their isolation from and eventually, condemnation from, the society. Non-conformity to the norms of society through the exercise of one's free will is considered deviant, and society considers that it is its function to ensure that deviant behavior is not tolerated in order to preserve the 'order' and stability that social norms and rules offer to civil society."
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"Lolita" ( Vladimir Nabokov ), 1999.
Critical analysis of two reviews of novel by Trevor McNeely & Brian Walter.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 55.95
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"Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was a controversial novel when it was first published because of its story--the criminal abduction and rape of a twelve year-old girl by her stepfather--and, even more, because of its presentation in the form of a love story. Critics have struggled to develop interpretations and explanations of the author's intentions that account for the strange combination of an extremely brutal subject and Nabokov's elegant writing. Unfortunately, at least with the two scholars studied here, the critical thought expended on the novel seems to have missed the point almost completely. Brian D. Walter and Trevor McNeely--two writers chosen at random from the scholarly literature--approach the novel with an earnestness that is not equaled by their ability to understand the book. Neither of these writers ever manages to be consistent in viewing the.."
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"A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" by James Joyce and " Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, 2000.
A comparison of the lives, styles and aesthetics of authors and the themes, intentions, characters and significance of their novels.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 9 sources, $ 79.95
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"James Joyce (1882-1941) and Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), two of the twentieth century's greatest English-language writers, were exiles throughout their working lives. The conditions of their exile were entirely different, but some of the effects on their writing were similar. Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Nabokov's Lolita (1958) are primarily works of exile. Joyce's heavily autobiographical novel recounts the education and growth of a potential writer, the young Stephen Dedalus, whose increasingly firm goal becomes escape from Ireland and all the complications of religion, politics, and family that hinder him as an artist. Nabokov's Humbert, on the other hand, could only be said to be autobiographical in terms of being an educated European immigrant observing the strange behavior of the people of America. In both cases, however, these deracin?, or..."
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Nabokov's "Lolita", 2008.
An examination of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel "Lolita".
2,299 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper looks at how Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert Humbert is a prime example of a character that forces the general public to reconsider what they view as acceptable behavior in literature and society and how throughout the book Nabokov demands of his readers a very personal analysis not only into his writing but into the reader's own sense of decency. It contends that while Nabokov's story is hardly pornographic, it deals heavily with the idea of child molestation though it is never expressly called that in the book and how, while it is now considered one of the greatest books ever written, it is still a testament to the fact that the idea of exploring the sexual misdeeds of a grown man with a child will always result in strong emotions from the reader.
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"This depraved sense of normalcy lends itself to many uncomfortable moments throughout the book. Humbert is a man destined to be his own undoing. An emotionally clumsy man, he sees himself as very subtle and stealthy yet to the reader his agenda is very transparent. This becomes clear from the first day Humbert meets Lolita. After moving from Europe to the United States he ends up boarding with a woman named Charlotte Haze. From the moment he walks in the door of her home the reader is acutely aware of his desire to flee. He is immediately turned off by the state of her home and we see that it is quite obvious to the Haze woman. His attitude changes immediately however as soon as he sets eyes on Lolita. "
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The Narrative Frame of Nabokov's "Lolita", 2007.
This paper considers Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" as a framed narrative.
1,303 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines the use of the literary device, framed narrative, in Nabokov's "Lolita." First, the paper defines the term framed narrative. It then suggests that this device was used in "Lolita" because of the novel's controversial content. Finally, the author suggests that Nabokov may have used framed narrative to protect himself, and possibly his position as a tenured professor.
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"As for Nabokov's note at the end, called "On a Book Entitled Lolita" (pp. 313-319), Lolita's true author ("Foreword" included), Vladimir Nabokov, comes clean immediately, in the first line of this "afterward" note to the reader, about his "impersonation of suave John Ray" (Nabokov, Lolita, p. 313). Nabokov then tells us in detail about both the genesis of, and the creative processes that went into his writing of Lolita, assuring us along the way that (1) the original idea for Lolita was a very old one, and has in fact seen several metamorphoses, on two continents, before finally emerging into the public eye, as the book it is today; (2) his urge to write it was solely a literary one (and he has in fact been writing novels, in not one language but two, since 1924), and once the idea finally emerged into the raw form of a novel, he had no creative choice but (like an itch that simply must be scratched) to finish it; (3) that he had initially been reticent to sign his own name to the book; (4) that he is in fact a stably married man, with hobbies, interests, and a routine kind of life ("Every summer my wife and I go butterfly hunting" (p. 314)), and that this particular work, his own artistic creation Lolita, is a work of art, not pornography (". . . in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches", p. 315)"
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Nabokov's "Lolita", 2004.
This paper offers an analysis of "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
1,582 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The paper discusses Nabokov's novel, "Lolita," that focuses on the invalid nature of the narrator's attempted justification for why we should not judge him morally for his seduction of a prepubescent nymphet.
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"Because of its depiction of the sexual obsession of a suave literary pedophile's for a prepubescent girl, Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" shocked readers and critics alike upon publication. However, the narrator Humbert attempts to provide us with an account of his nymphet love in a manner that tries to justify his pedophilia as driven by an artistic aesthetic."
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The Exiles of Joyce and Nabokov, 2002.
The paper compares and contrasts the effects on the writings of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov of living in exile.
3,473 words (approx. 13.9 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 97.95
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The paper looks at two of the twentieth century's greatest English-language writers, noting that they were exiles throughout their working lives. The conditions of their exile were entirely different, but some of the effects on their writing were similar. According to the paper, Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and Nabokov's "Lolita" (1958) are primarily works of exile.
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"Joyce determined at an early age that conditions in Ireland and the essentially lonely condition of the artist made exile the only choice for him. He made the surprising decision, following graduation from University College to take up medical studies in Paris in 1902. But in 1903 he was called back to Dublin by the fatal illness of his mother. In Ireland Joyce met his future wife Nora Barnacle and determined once again to make his escape to the Continent. He left Ireland again in 1904 for what became permanent exile on the continent, living at Trieste, Zurich, Rome, and, principally, Paris."
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Vladimir Putin, 2005.
An overview of Vladimir Putin, his presidency and the Russian economy.
1,797 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines the leadership of Putin from his ascension to power after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin on December 31, 1999. It looks at how it was the first totally free and democratic election and transfer of power in that nation's history. In particular, the paper discusses his attempt to turn around the economy and how he has failed to fix an economic system that badly needed reform.
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Brief Introduction to Vladimir Putin's Life
Vladimir Putin, His Presidency, and the Russian Economy
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"When Yeltsin resigned and turned over the reins to Putin December 31, 1999, Putin's "initial act as president" (415) was very controversial in that he agreed to sign "a decree granting retiring President Yeltsin and his family a series of benefits and privileges." Those privileges included "immunity from criminal investigation or prosecution," according to the book by David MacKenzie and Michael Curran.
In fact, it looked to observers like the free pass for Yeltsin - protecting him against any possible investigations regarding possible wrongdoing while he was in office - was part of the deal in which Yeltsin wanted to turn power over to Putin. "
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Vladimir Putin, 2006.
A review of the life and career of Vladimir Putin.
2,387 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper presents a detailed examination of Russian President, Vladimir Putin. The paper explores Putin's life and his rise to power during the most unsettled time in the nation. The paper discusses what keeps Putin popular as well as some of his political platforms on how to rebuild the nation.
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Introduction
How He Got There
Putting It Together
Conclusion
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"To fully understand how he became the president it is important to understand the type of man that he is. Putin decides what he wants and he goes for it. This has been illustrated throughout his life. First when he was a child and wanted to gain a command of the English and German languages he devoted himself to doing exactly that. While other students might have approached it as something they were required to do by teachers, Putin knew that having several languages at his disposal would help him achieve his goals later in life therefore he became proficient in them both(HIS LIFE http://vladimirputin.4u.ru/).
The same styled passion was seen when he was a boy and decided to study self defense sports. Many boys take sports including self defense sports, and they attend tournaments at the instruction of their masters and their parents, however, in Putin's case he decided early on that he was going to excel and become a master in the sports that he studied. He worked hard, he practiced he examined his shortcomings and strengthened them until he gained a reputation as one of the best in the area and attained the title of master. "
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Nabokov: Lolita, 1987.
Explores similarities & differences between Nabokov's book & Kubrick's movie LOLITA.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 31.95
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"The novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and the film version by director Stanley Kubrick differ in a number of ways as to plot, characters, and tone. Of course, the primary difference is in medium, and this is especially important for this novel given that wordplay is a vital element in it, while the film only touches on that aspect of Humbert Humbert's obsessive life. The major diversion Kubrick takes from the book is found in his elevation of Quilty to a major character.
The novel was a controversial one. It was published first in 1955 in France because Nabokov could not find an American publisher, but the book was finally published in the United States in 1958 and became an immediate best-seller:
It is biography, detective story, tale of the double, romantic novel, travel book, comedy, but also tragedy,(...)"
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Vladimir Lenin's Theory of Imperialism, 1992.
Discusses definition, justification and applicability in the 1990s.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 39.95
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"This study will examine Lenin's theory of imperialism, and will consider whether his theory remains applicable in the 1990s, and why.
Lenin did not mean, by imperialism, what has generally come to be associated with the term. As we read in Fairbank, "The term 'imperialism,' has of course been ambiguous in American thinking. As first used in the nineteenth century, it referred to the European powers extending their political control over other peoples in the regions where those peoples lived. In short, it meant colonialism. But at the end of the nineteenth century, Lenin . . . . inspired partly by the new science of economics, saw the real evil as capitalist or financial imperialism, which might enslave a people from abroad without necessarily taking them over as a colony" (Fairbank, 1987,...."
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The Use of Language in Nabokov's "Lolita", 2000.
A look at how the protagonist, although an offensive character, uses language to win his reader's sympathy.
1,346 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 45.95
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This paper analyzes how the use of language in "Lolita" is meant to change the reader's perception of the protagonist's actions.
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"In his novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov writes of a man, Humbert Humbert, plagued by his uncontrollable desire for the love of nymphets. Humbert acknowledges how those reading his accounts will judge them as amoral and wrong, so he attempts to use language, the descriptive analysis of events and people, to create a bond between himself and the reader."
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