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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Relate an example of twinning/duplication or original/copy to a central theme of the novel.

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

Blog only! What's with all the squirrels?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

When Liza was pregnant, did Pnin believe the child was his?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Why does Nabokov make Pnin's sorrow at losing Liza again somewhat comic (2.6&7)?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

How is it that Pnin has adapted so poorly to his new environment?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

Is Pnin comic, pathetic, heroic, tragic, saintly?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

Who is the narrator? How can he be both omniscent & a character?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

Why does the novel end, where it began, with Pnin's lecture at Cremona?

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Labels: Nabokov, Pnin

Monday, November 14, 2011

How can the isolation described by Stanton become a source of social change?

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Labels: Solitude of the Self, Stanton

Why is it that "there is something of every passion in every situation we conceal (p. 2, #12)?"

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Labels: Solitude of the Self, Stanton

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Regarding the 1st paragraph, is "The Solitude of the Self" not an argument? Or is it a new one? Or is it not about suffrage?

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Labels: Solitude of the Self, Stanton

Is Stanton's concept of the solitude of the self similar to Emerson's self-reliance? Why is her tone so much gloomier?

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Labels: Solitude of the Self, Stanton

What does the story of the tidal wave (p. 5, # 29) prove?

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Labels: Solitude of the Self, Stanton

What paragraph in this speech is most relevant to women today?

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Labels: Solitude of the Self, Stanton

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

In the "Divinity School Address," Emerson frequently refers to beauty (e.g., thrice on p. 3). What does it have to do with the sentiment of virtue?

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Labels: Divinity School Address, Emerson

"What greater clamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship (p. 8)?"

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Labels: Divinity School Address, Emerson
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