Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront

New Criticism

New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object

The Tell-Tale Heart

Can guilt make itself heard?

the Romantics (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley) elevated

Romantics valued imagination and feeling over reason and convention

Dickinson's dashes do

Dickinson's dashes fracture syntax to mirror the fluidity of thought

Stalker (1979 film)

Stalker explores a mysterious 'Zone' granting innermost desires

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity