The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 189
... appearance of rhymes in prose seems to forbid their use for serious purposes , they are often employed by Nabokov to emphasize the delusive nature of phonological similarities and to foreground ironically hidden correspondences in ...
... appearance of rhymes in prose seems to forbid their use for serious purposes , they are often employed by Nabokov to emphasize the delusive nature of phonological similarities and to foreground ironically hidden correspondences in ...
Page 281
... appearance only to disappear again , " never to be mentioned again " ( GO , 77 ) . At the end of the short story " Perfection " , an anonymous lady who plays no other part than to take David by the hand to lead him away from the beach ...
... appearance only to disappear again , " never to be mentioned again " ( GO , 77 ) . At the end of the short story " Perfection " , an anonymous lady who plays no other part than to take David by the hand to lead him away from the beach ...
Page 365
... appearances in the margin of his books reminds the characters of their fragile existence and the readers of the author's ... appearance as " The Butterfly Hunter " ( LS , 128 ) . Butterflies are significant signs of authorial control and ...
... appearances in the margin of his books reminds the characters of their fragile existence and the readers of the author's ... appearance as " The Butterfly Hunter " ( LS , 128 ) . Butterflies are significant signs of authorial control and ...
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