Essays about: "My Dark Vanessa"

Found 1 essay containing the words My Dark Vanessa.

  1. 1. Giving Lolita a Voice : A feminist reading of Lolita and My Dark Vanessa

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Tyra Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Lolita; My Dark Vanessa; Literature; Feminism; Internalized Patriarchy; Male Gaze;

    Abstract : This study examines patriarchal ideology and traditional gender roles in Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita and Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa. Using feminist literary criticism, the essay investigates in what waysthe ways in which the female characters, Dolores, and Vanessa, are affected by the patriarchal assumptions and patterns that the male characters promote. READ MORE