Reading+Lolita+in+Tehran

=__**Reading Lolita in Tehran**__= __**Mini Analysis Essay Prompt:**__ Of Lolita, Nafisi writes: "Lolita belongs to a category of victims who have no defense and are never given a chance to articulate their own story. As such, she becomes a double victim: not only her life but also her life story is taken from her" (41). Write a literary analytical essay, which you explain the contexts and connections of this quotation.




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As you read "Reading Lolita in Tehran", you will pay attention to how the speaker/writer, audience/reader, and subject/topic all interact (rhetorical triangle). As chapter two in //The Language of Composition// states, "That is you start with the small details, and as you think about them, you discover how they affect the text's larger meaning"(35). **Below you will find the questions you should always think about whenever you are given a text in class, and //Reading Lolita in Tehran// is no exception.**

While reading //Reading Lolita//, you will do a **"Book Review Blog"**. In each blog entry, you will react to that evening's assigned reading as if you are a book blogger. In //each// submission, you MUST include //three (3)// of the questions below. This should not be in question/answer format, but should be a natural progression from one topic to the next. If you are nervous that I, as the intended audience, cannot decipher what questions you are answering, you may post them at the end of each blog entry.

 **Who is the author/speaker?*** How does he or she establish ethos (personal credibility)? **What is his/her intention in speaking?*** To attack or defend? **Who make up the audience?*** Who is the intended audience?
 * **What is the rhetorical situation?*** What occasion gives rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion?
 * What is the historical occasion that would give rise to the composition of this text?
 * Does he/she come across as knowledgeable? fair?
 * Does the speaker's reputation convey a certain authority?
 * To exhort or dissuade from certain action?
 * To praise or blame?
 * To teach, to delight, or to persuade?
 * What values does the audience hold that the author or speaker appeals to?
 * Who have been or might be secondary audiences?
 * If this is a work of fiction, what is the nature of the audience within the fiction?

Questions taken from: [] || **What is the content of the message?*** Can you summarize the main idea? **What is the form in which it is conveyed?*** What is the structure of the communication; how is it arranged? **How do form and content correspond?*** Does the form complement the content? **Does the message/speech/text succeed in fulfilling the author's or speaker's intentions?*** For whom? **What does the nature of the communication reveal about the culture that produced it?*** What kinds of values or customs would the people have that would produce this?
 * What are the principal lines of reasoning or kinds of arguments used?
 * What topics of invention are employed?
 * How does the author or speaker appeal to reason? to emotion?
 * What oral or literary genre is it following?
 * What figures of speech (schemes and tropes) are used?
 * What kind of style and tone is used and for what purpose?
 * What effect could the form have, and does this aid or hinder the author's intention?
 * Does the author/speaker effectively fit his/her message to the circumstances, times, and audience?
 * Can you identify the responses of historical or contemporary audiences?
 * How do the allusions, historical references, or kinds of words used place this in a certain time and location? ||

**Your blogs and chapters are due on the following dates, no exceptions:**

 * Blog Entry #1:**
 * Chapters 1-5 Due 4/6**


 * Blog Entry #2:**
 * Chapters 6-13 Due 4/7**


 * Blog Entry #3:**
 * Chapters 14-18 Due 4/8**


 * Blog Entry #4:**
 * Chapters 19-21 Due 4/11**


 * Blog Entry #5:**
 * Part II; Chapters 1-6 Due 4/13**


 * Blog Entry #6:**
 * Chapters 7-16 Due 4/15**


 * Blog Entry #7:**
 * Chapters 17-20 Due 4/18**


 * Blog Entry #8:**
 * Chapters 21-26 Due 4/20**


 * Blog Entry #9:**
 * Part III; Chapters 1-6 Due 4/22**


 * Blog Entry #10:**
 * Chapters 7-14 Due 4/25**