Absently staring at the Nicki-channel for "Sponge Bob" and "Fairly
Good Parents," I had the impression I saw "Ramsdale" and a road-sign
indicating "Nabokovia." Although in this cartoon there are citations of
Stallone, Schwarznegger and George Bush, I must have dreamed the
whole episode - for I got nowhere in my search.
Clicking on "Ramsdale" there are other items that might interest
the List participants on a Sunday mood. Here they are:
1. Liste de villes de fiction- Un article de Wikipédia,
l'encyclopédie libre:
Une ville de fiction ou ville imaginaire est une
ville qui n'existe pas dans le monde réel, où se déroule l'action d'une œuvre de
fiction. La ville n'existe donc pas en dehors de l'imagination des auteurs,
lecteurs, participants au jeu, et autres usagers de ladite œuvre. Ceux-ci
replacent parfois cette ville ou ce lieu dans une géographie précise et réelle
afin de crédibiliser la ville et de profiter de certains lieux communs ou
certaines caractéristiques géographiques (météo, lieux environnants, habitants,
faune, flore, etc.).
Agatuk...Alphaville...Amity...Arlen...Balbec...Blue
Valley...Brownsville...Calumet
City...Célesteville...Cocorico...Desperation...Dictionopolis...Dogville...Edge
City...Fairview...Fish City...Gnisis...Gotham City..Hound Dog
City...Incognito-City...Jefferson...Kingsbridge...Lawndale...Locus
Solus......Macondo...Metropolis...New Babylon...Opar...Peyton
Place...Quiquendone...Ramsdale..
Ravenholm...Smallville...St Loo...Teirm...Tranquility
Lane...Undercity...Varna...Vice City...Xanadu...Zerba
2.
Miranda - N°3 - "Putting the geography of the
United States into ...
www.miranda-ejournal.eu/1/miranda/article.xsp?...3...
- 26 Nov 2010 – Even if the name of towns are fictive in Kubrick's Lolita
as
there is no such place as Ramsdale, NH, in the United
States, what matters is the ..
Zachary BAQUE - Maitre de
conférences - Université Toulouse 2-Le Mirail :The purpose of this paper is to
analyze the representation of America as seen by a European in Kubrick’s Lolita.
The movie is understood as a fictionalized travelogue where Humbert Humbert is
the great organizer whose point of view channels the representation of America
and determines the way actors incarnate characters. Despite claims that the
movie does not render visually the travels of Humbert and Lolita through the
United States, Kubrick anchors his fiction in a determinate setting. The three
levels of American space (poetic, realist, and metafictional) help us to
understand Humbert’s ironic stance on American culture and his feeling of
estrangement in a sex-crazed America.
3.
Lolita, USA - Index page
www.dezimmer.net/LolitaUSA/LoUSpre.htm
- There are fifteen imaginary towns in the novel:
Ramsdale, Parkington, Climax, .... Whenever one encounters some
weird place in his fiction it is safer to assume it ...