Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011485, Thu, 12 May 2005 16:55:40 -0700

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Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 03:54:31 EDT
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Subject: Re: Help: plagiarism of _Pale Fire_ criticism?
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In a message dated 12/05/2005 03:49:31 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:

> 1) "Nabokov's choice of poly-vocal narration in _Pale Fire_ is on one
> level to challenge the reader to interpret the text without a concrete
> sense of cohesiveness."
>
> 2) "Nabokov defiantly goes against all of the preconceived expectations of
> a novel in _Pale Fire_ to signal to his reader the dangers of only
> accepting a literary work, which has been constructed using the same
> methods of previous texts."
>

Should not anyone who writes like this be failed by his or her examiners
whether or not he or she has plagiarised it from someone else who writes like
this?

Anthony Stadlen

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