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So: Andrew. Andrew Goldstone: thanks, Amy.
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So, on Monday
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we had three main themes that were used to introduce this novel to you.
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First is the idea that the novel invites ethical questions
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but also holds them off through parody in the same way that
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it uses the tropes of romanticism and romantic love and parodies them.
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Secondly, we looked at Humbert's techniques of rhetorical seduction
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and related that to a kind of intellectual problem
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that Nabokov sets himself of trying to make you identify with this villainous character.
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And that leads to the third big question we looked at,
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which is the place of Nabokov in this novel amidst the many layers,
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whether he crosses them or confuses them.