The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... complete the picture themselves . Their desti : ies are composed of many separate experiences which , when properly " placed " , form recognizable ornaments . Previcus to his passion for chess , Luzhin was fascinated by jigsaw puzzles ...
... complete the picture themselves . Their desti : ies are composed of many separate experiences which , when properly " placed " , form recognizable ornaments . Previcus to his passion for chess , Luzhin was fascinated by jigsaw puzzles ...
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... complete object . At the sea- side , Sineusov has discovered a shard of porcelain and is tantalized by the bought ... complete , the ab- solutely complete , bowl , broken by some Italian child , God knows where and when , and now mended ...
... complete object . At the sea- side , Sineusov has discovered a shard of porcelain and is tantalized by the bought ... complete , the ab- solutely complete , bowl , broken by some Italian child , God knows where and when , and now mended ...
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... Complete Poetical Works of Byron , edited by Paul E. More ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1933 ) . Byron : Selected Prose , edited by Peter Gunn ( Harmonds- worth , 1972 ) . Carroll , Lewis , Through the Looking - Glass ( New York : Centennial ...
... Complete Poetical Works of Byron , edited by Paul E. More ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1933 ) . Byron : Selected Prose , edited by Peter Gunn ( Harmonds- worth , 1972 ) . Carroll , Lewis , Through the Looking - Glass ( New York : Centennial ...
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