REVERSE EKPHRASIS AND BAKHTINIAN RE-ACCENTUATION: CODING ALICE AS A NYMPHET IN GRAPHIC NOVELS.
Over the past 50 years, the understanding of the nymphet has mutated from a special type of becoming, as seen in Nabokov's master text, to being a Lilithlike essence. There are other rules to be observed by the American artists Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie when portraying a nymphet as contrasted to...
| Publicado en: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 91 - 115 |
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Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters
Jul2016
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