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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:53:31 -0400
From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
Reply-To: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
Subject: RE: Humbert's pedophilia on film
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum Barbara,
I'm pretty closely aware of compilation cuts and montages from work that I've
done. I think that what Sandy and I are looking for is a literary term, or
perhaps a completely new term, that would describe how Nabokov has presented,
in Lolita, a picture of the U.S. that is as minute and detailed as a mosaic,
and yet so alive. I don't have time now to go through the correspondence on
this, but I believe we were looking for a descriptive term for something that
characterizes VN's writing. The fact that Humbert's tone and style lives within
and guides this technique is part of what I think moves it away from becoming a
compilation or montage. In my view, that is.
Thanks
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> EDNOTE. Barbara Wyllie is the author of a recent book on Nabokov and film.
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> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:41:00 +0100
> From: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on film
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
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> The kind of scenes you describe in the book could be likened to a series of
what
> in film are called 'compilation cuts' - a sequence made up of a number of
> rapidly changing and not necessarily related scenes/images which together
> create a distinct and vital impression of a place or the sense of passing
time.
>
> Montage would also be an appropriate term. In Webster: 1 : the production of a
> rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of
> ideas; 2 a : a literary, musical, or artistic composite of juxtaposed more or
> less heterogeneous elements.
>
> Barbara Wyllie
> SSEES/UCL
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> From: Donald B. Johnson
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> Sent: 28 April, 2005 12:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on film
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> Andrew and List
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> 1. You are correct. The word "panorama", as generally used,
suggests
> a continous, perhaps superficial and generalized, view quite contrary
> to Nabokov's methodic details. There must be a better word for the
> multiple, detailed, trans-American scenes. [Perhaps I was influenced by
> an older meaning of the word. In my Webster's International 2nd
> Edition: "3. ....; a mental image of a series of images or events,
> etc
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