Diversions and Deceit: Eliot, Nabokov, and the Art of Misdirection in a Speed-Reading Society
Rose Burt, San Diego State University In the preface to Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, the character Charles Kinbote urges the reader to refer to his annotations to a poem and to “study the poem with their help, rereading them of course.†Critics who followed this advice soon published labyrinthine notes with annotations of the annotations […]