The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 154
... dark , black ' and German weiss ' white ' ) a psychiatrist ( Latin albus ' white ' and German dunkel ' dark ' ) a dream - researcher ( Latin clarus ' light , clear ' ) 7 ) Many names reveal hidden qualities , developments , or con ...
... dark , black ' and German weiss ' white ' ) a psychiatrist ( Latin albus ' white ' and German dunkel ' dark ' ) a dream - researcher ( Latin clarus ' light , clear ' ) 7 ) Many names reveal hidden qualities , developments , or con ...
Page 179
... darkness , solemnity , warmth , softness , or gloom : Beyond the plate - glass windows , soft snow kept softly fall- ing ( 0 , 45 ) It is very dark ... Sombre mass on sombre mass and somewhere an owl hooting . An abyss of darkness ...
... darkness , solemnity , warmth , softness , or gloom : Beyond the plate - glass windows , soft snow kept softly fall- ing ( 0 , 45 ) It is very dark ... Sombre mass on sombre mass and somewhere an owl hooting . An abyss of darkness ...
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... dark " ( I , 189 ) , and to Cincinnatus , too , the reality , the daytime of his captors , is dark , incompre- hensible . He lives in another world and cannot find his way among the people in whose midst he is exiled . His father had ...
... dark " ( I , 189 ) , and to Cincinnatus , too , the reality , the daytime of his captors , is dark , incompre- hensible . He lives in another world and cannot find his way among the people in whose midst he is exiled . His father had ...
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