The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... concepts and , as such , must be seen in the context of a generally learned and precise vocabulary ( see IV.1.2 ) . Some subdivisions may be made . 2.4.1 There is a large group of French words more or less familiar to educated speakers ...
... concepts and , as such , must be seen in the context of a generally learned and precise vocabulary ( see IV.1.2 ) . Some subdivisions may be made . 2.4.1 There is a large group of French words more or less familiar to educated speakers ...
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... concepts which make short , marginal appearances . Some exploit the punning possibilities of language ( or rather , languages ) and sparkle with wit , others are suggestive terms harboring various associations . In Ada the fictional ...
... concepts which make short , marginal appearances . Some exploit the punning possibilities of language ( or rather , languages ) and sparkle with wit , others are suggestive terms harboring various associations . In Ada the fictional ...
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... concepts have concrete qualities . The epi- thet modifying the noun expresses a character's ima- ginative , subjective view of a concept . In some cases 40 the combination is a synesthetic metaphor Examples : marble finality ( PF , 15 ) ...
... concepts have concrete qualities . The epi- thet modifying the noun expresses a character's ima- ginative , subjective view of a concept . In some cases 40 the combination is a synesthetic metaphor Examples : marble finality ( PF , 15 ) ...
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