The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 125
... character and creator " . The world as the characters perceive it is at variance with the creator's view of the fictional universe . The difference between the relative knowledge of the protagonists and the absolute knowledge of the ...
... character and creator " . The world as the characters perceive it is at variance with the creator's view of the fictional universe . The difference between the relative knowledge of the protagonists and the absolute knowledge of the ...
Page 152
... characters . They are not conventional , essentially meaningless names ( like Smith , Ivanov , or de Tibenson ) , but , similar to those of Gogol's characters , nick- names ( GO , 43 ) . Contrary to real names , they convey some- thing ...
... characters . They are not conventional , essentially meaningless names ( like Smith , Ivanov , or de Tibenson ) , but , similar to those of Gogol's characters , nick- names ( GO , 43 ) . Contrary to real names , they convey some- thing ...
Page 280
... characters who have completely succumbed to the fatal attraction of " referential mania " . The attempt to di- vine the sense behind the cosmic signs and ciphers and to re- late their meaning to one's individual destiny is doomed to ...
... characters who have completely succumbed to the fatal attraction of " referential mania " . The attempt to di- vine the sense behind the cosmic signs and ciphers and to re- late their meaning to one's individual destiny is doomed to ...
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