NPPF Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Don Corathers]

Just found this in my inbox--so much for my need for order. Wonderful stuff,
Jasper. Thanks for getting this thing rolling so nicely.

Don Corathers

>
> Casting Shade as Kinbote's Boswell (or panegyrist): this is an interesting
> dimension to Kinbote, the mirror of the commentator dutifully gathering
and
> reporting information on his subject; Kinbote wants to gather and report
his
> own information as well, and hang it in Shade's mirror.  He sees his role
as
> collaborative rather than merely responsive.  This all goes to the idea of
> synthesis: of poem and commentary into an atomic text.  But it also serves
a
> larger process in PF, the act of creating connections and meaning from the
> discovered world.  As Shade creates meaning through the writing of the
poem
> -- a process that structures the entire commentary (to the extent that
> Kinbote allows it) -- by taking parts of his world and his memory and
> putting them into verse, so too Kinbote creates meaning for himself by
> supplying Shade and the hypothetical reader with his own world and
memories.
> Zembla too is created as the novel moves along, again for both Shade and
> reader.  John Shade is for Kinbote one more discovered aspect of the world
> that can be used in order to create meaning.
>
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