Publicités, magazines, et autres textes non littéraires dans Lolita : pour une autre poétique intertextuelle

This paper focuses upon intertextuality in Nabokov’s Lolita, but not through literary allusion. Instead, this study analyzes the way the author integrates non-literary material taken from post-World War 2 American mass culture into the textual fabric. Thanks to the preparatory notes to the novel kept at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, one can compare the way Nabokov weaves the non-literary elements into the fabric of his writing with his more traditional intertextual practice, so as to define the role of popular culture in his aesthetics.