From my personal understandings of reading "Good Readers and Good Writers" , I think Vladimir Nabokov has a strong authority as a writer. One of the first clues that drew me to this conclusion was where it states that the essay is an excerpt from Lectures on Literature. This means that Nabokov is most likely a teacher or instructor of some type so he has the authority to educate others. Another detail that proves his authority as a writer is the fact that his essay was originally delivered 1948 (Nabokov, page 1, paragraph 1), which is over sixty years ago. His works and teachings, or at least this particular one, are helpful and useful enough to continue to be taught up to this present day. Reading farther into this essay, I also found more proof of his teaching experience to support his authority as a writer. He talks about how how he was a part of a lecture tour and taught at a small local college. He also talked about his students when he mentions his "little quiz- ten definitions of a reader and from these ten the students had to choose four definitions that would combine to make a good reader" (Nabokov, page 2, paragraph 2). All of these examples prove he has the authority to teach and educate others, as well as travel because of his lectures thus giving Nabokov high authority as a writer.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, and Fredson Bowers. Lectures on Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Print.
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