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with the Identity Plot itself.
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Then there are incarnations of it that don't reflect on any of those
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aesthetic issues, don't reflect on the history of the
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literary tradition, don't engage questions about
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language, that deliver instead conventional,
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predictable satisfactions of the genre, and these we would
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call genre fiction.
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And, if you recall, Nabokov talks a little bit about
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pornography as genre fiction that gives you that predictable
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mechanical frisson of pleasure at the predictable place,
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and he describes Lolita as rejecting the convention of pornography.
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You can think about his description as applying also to the Identity