Sunday, November 8, 2009

Tuesday, November 3

"Welcome to Kinboteland"

psycho pompous: Hermes- the guide of souls pg 126

Nabokov= Hermes

intro to Lolita: PF and VN pg 27

SAMPLE PAPER TOPICS:
  • parody
  • coincidence
  • expand blogs (pg 63)
  • patterning (chess, lepodoptra)
  • illusion/allusion
  • work with in work- frames
  • staging of the novel
  • authorial voice (p 63) ~who is the author
  • doppelgangers

grade: shade, degree (gradus, degree)

'The Ugly Duckling' is Pale Fire, but a reversed displacement

"not a cryptographic paper chase, but the guide of our souls" ~Dr S

Major theme: communication with the dead

the 4 quartets by TS Eliot

  • time
  • memory
  • communication with the dead

Who is dead at the end?

  • Hazel
  • Aunt Maud
  • J. Shade

Kinbote knows nothing on the outside, but he is "perfectly manipulated by the dead"

Pale Fire: a parody of literary criticism- relationship between interpreter and text

John Shade= Emily Dickenson: both had people steal and edit their poems

Everyone knows a Kinbote, and I hate to admit that I'm a Sybil, not a John...

PITY: compassion for the insane= The Phantom of the Opera

Assistant Prof who he is talking about on pg 24? -Gerald Emerald

Kinbote= Hazel, they are VERY similar!

Netochka pg 25

Wizard of Oz: Dorothy projects all of her friends from Kansas into Oz, with their cowardly, brainless and heartless ways (this clip isn't exactly what I wanted, but I couldn't find the entire first scene, I am horrible at using youtube...)

Gradus: McFate

Arabian Nights= 'Destroyer of Delights' DEATH

pg 255~ Because Jack Grey kills himself with a safety razor, so K offers Gradus one whenever he speaks of him

Pale Fire trumps Lolita!!!!!

Malenkov

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