This author termed the swerving way Austen depicts Fanny Price's emotions the "knight's move" in a reading of Mansfield Park that stresses its "play theme." This author, whose favorite word is "mauve" according to Ben Blatt, suggested that instructors prepare diagrams of Leopold Bloom's Dublin in his Lectures on Literature. "The cradle rocks above an abyss" in this author's memoir, which discusses the governess Mademoiselle O. In his translation of a 1833 poem that includes the essay "Notes on Prosody," this author removed masculine and feminine rhymes from each of the poem's 14-line stanzas. This translator of Eugene Onegin wrote a novel in which a poem about how "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain" is erroneously interpreted to be about Zembla by Charles Kinbote. For 10 points, name this author of Speak, Memory; Pale Fire; and Lolita. ■END■
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