Style and reality in american postmodernist literature
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2016
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The representation of reality in literature is a very controversial issue. While there are writers and critics who emphasize the formal aspects of literary texts, sociologists, however; study the relationship between literature and the society. They believe in the referential function of literature, literature as a reflection of the real world. Nabokov's Lolita is a key text which is a major contribution to the belief in the value of the form. Nabokov always claims his disinterest in reality. Thus, studies about Lolita had focused either on its form or the theme of immorality in the novel. Our research attempts to break away with the limitations of previous studies by examining the relationship between the novel's form and the real world. It is our assumption that the formal aspects of the novel serve its realistic concerns.
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Littérature : style : (Amérique), Novel : Nabokov : Lolita