The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 355
... speaking of the lepi- dopterist Kanner ( who , incidentally , is to play , in his ca- pacity of musician , a suite entitled Les ... Speak , Memory ( 129-31 ) , about the strange reactions of other people to his interest in and pursuit of ...
... speaking of the lepi- dopterist Kanner ( who , incidentally , is to play , in his ca- pacity of musician , a suite entitled Les ... Speak , Memory ( 129-31 ) , about the strange reactions of other people to his interest in and pursuit of ...
Page 358
... Speak , Memory , is adorned with two butterflies : two 19 specimens of the Parnassius mnemosyne ( SM , 18 ) enliven the map of his Russian past . They are emblems representing the beauty , fragility , and grace of his Russian memories ...
... Speak , Memory , is adorned with two butterflies : two 19 specimens of the Parnassius mnemosyne ( SM , 18 ) enliven the map of his Russian past . They are emblems representing the beauty , fragility , and grace of his Russian memories ...
Page 454
... Speak , Memory , but the past , memory , patterns , designs , congruences , and the overcoming of time are themes and characteristics of all his fictional works ; they give shape and meaning to ex- perience and again emphasize the view ...
... Speak , Memory , but the past , memory , patterns , designs , congruences , and the overcoming of time are themes and characteristics of all his fictional works ; they give shape and meaning to ex- perience and again emphasize the view ...
Common terms and phrases
adjective Agnomination alliteration appearance Appendix artistic aspects assonance beauty Bend Sinister blend bokov's butterfly characterized chess problems Cincinnatus color combinations compounds concepts connected consciousness context correspondence dark death deceptive dream Dreyer elements émigrés emotional English existence experience expression fate feeling fictional world French frequently further examples Fyodor German Hermann human Humbert imagination incongruity ironical irony John Shade Kinbote Kinbote's language linguistic literary lives Lolita meaning memory metaphor mirror Nabokov's characters Nabokov's fiction Nabokov's prose narrator nature noun novel onomatopoeia onomatopoeic Pale Fire parallelism past patterns person phonological phrase play Pnin poem poetic polysemy prefix protagonists reader reality refers rhythm Russian scene Sebastian Knight semantic sense Shade similarity solus rex sound specific suffixes suggestive Synesthesia texture things verb verbal vision visual wordplay words writes