The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... associations . Martin , the hero of Glory , is enchanted by the sound of the word travel , which evokes lexical associations of stars and mist and contains a morphemic echo of velvet : " Travel , " said Martin softly , and he repeated ...
... associations . Martin , the hero of Glory , is enchanted by the sound of the word travel , which evokes lexical associations of stars and mist and contains a morphemic echo of velvet : " Travel , " said Martin softly , and he repeated ...
Page 193
... associations . Thus the m is a fold of pink flannel ( SM , 35 ; G , 86 ) , the y a pale , transparent pink called " rose - quartz " ( SM , 35 ; SO , 17 ) , the o an ivory - backed hand mirror ( SM , 34 ) , then a grayish - yellowish ...
... associations . Thus the m is a fold of pink flannel ( SM , 35 ; G , 86 ) , the y a pale , transparent pink called " rose - quartz " ( SM , 35 ; SO , 17 ) , the o an ivory - backed hand mirror ( SM , 34 ) , then a grayish - yellowish ...
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... associations connect- ed with a similar smell in the past and restore the past ex- perience to an unusual degree of emotional presence . Already in his first novel , Mary , this close relation between a characteristic smell and ...
... associations connect- ed with a similar smell in the past and restore the past ex- perience to an unusual degree of emotional presence . Already in his first novel , Mary , this close relation between a characteristic smell and ...
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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