This is what fiction is supposed to do: introduce you to the minds of those you wouldn't ordinarily meet
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Allusions - pages 264 - 318
Try to incorporate the analysis of (some of) these allusions into your interpretation of the selected part in order to enrich / deepen your interpretation:
1. Edward Hopper: Road in Maine (Kiki, p. 266, 268) 2.E.M. Forster: A Room with a View (Harold, p. 298) - Zadie Smith's favourite writer; On Beauty is based on his novel Howards End 3. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (Howard + Victoria, p. 315)