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If you have the time, you can have a great class around Appel's persona
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i.e. what is the type of authorized reader Nabokov has produced. The
intro and annotations are just spilling over with insights and
anxieties.
Who is the ideal reader and how has he been created by the novel and its
author? What do students wish he had glossed but didn't? Where do they
find his comments excessive or annoying? Why is Stockade Clyde so great?
You can lead them to focus on their own relationship w. the text, the
expectations they have for themselves as readers and whether they are
meeting them or not. If you have 3 weeks for Lolita, try this at the
start of the second one.