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From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
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> My name is Marie Bouchet, and I am currently progressing through a
doctoral
> thesis in 20th century American literature at the University of Bordeaux
> under the supervision of Christine Raguet-Bouvart, Professor at La
Sorbonne
> University. I am working on maiden figures in Vladimir Nabokov's English
> fiction, and my thesis deals with the characterization of those recurring
> figures from a thematic, stylistic, and intertextual point of view. Hence
I
> intend to explore the issues of the representation of body and desire in
> literature. I am not interested in any biographical reason for the
> omnipresence of young ladies in Nabokov's works, but in the aesthetic
> tensions underlying the representation of a body in metamorphosis, at the
> threshold of childhood and adulthood, between innocence and seduction. I
am
> thus also reflecting upon the strategies to fix in words and images the
> fluctuating nature of maidens, chasing them like butterflies through the
> never-completed descriptions and portraits which resort to strategies of
> displacement (hypallages, synecdoches, intertextual and pictorial
> allusions).
> Marie C. Bouchet
>
From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> My name is Marie Bouchet, and I am currently progressing through a
doctoral
> thesis in 20th century American literature at the University of Bordeaux
> under the supervision of Christine Raguet-Bouvart, Professor at La
Sorbonne
> University. I am working on maiden figures in Vladimir Nabokov's English
> fiction, and my thesis deals with the characterization of those recurring
> figures from a thematic, stylistic, and intertextual point of view. Hence
I
> intend to explore the issues of the representation of body and desire in
> literature. I am not interested in any biographical reason for the
> omnipresence of young ladies in Nabokov's works, but in the aesthetic
> tensions underlying the representation of a body in metamorphosis, at the
> threshold of childhood and adulthood, between innocence and seduction. I
am
> thus also reflecting upon the strategies to fix in words and images the
> fluctuating nature of maidens, chasing them like butterflies through the
> never-completed descriptions and portraits which resort to strategies of
> displacement (hypallages, synecdoches, intertextual and pictorial
> allusions).
> Marie C. Bouchet
>