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
- 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!!!!!
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