Thursday, November 19, 2009
I think that my favorite paper that I read would have to be Jana Curries paper on the letter Q in Lolita. I was impressed on the papers ability to take such a specific point and form it into a coherent, interesting paper. Reading through it was like following a trail of clues, which is equally what reading a Nabokov text is like. I think that the discovery about the letter Q being slang for the word cue, which is given to Quilty as a nickname was fascinating. Further the finding that Q means initiation of deception was very interesting to me; it really proved that absolutely nothing that Nabokov put into his novels was without complete purpose and meaning. I think it was a great paper with new ideas and discoveries, obviously not the only paper of this type as there were many papers that I thought were amazing. This particular one just seemed to grab me though!
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