The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 250
... emotional involvement , to facetious playfulness and cold cynicism . Nabokov has always shown great interest in his charac- ters ' emotional lives . He is a psychological writer , in the best sense of the word . The " human humidity ...
... emotional involvement , to facetious playfulness and cold cynicism . Nabokov has always shown great interest in his charac- ters ' emotional lives . He is a psychological writer , in the best sense of the word . The " human humidity ...
Page 251
... emotional writing ( in their verbal manifestations ) will be briefly presented . The first group of features comprises certain combinations of adjective – noun , adverb adjective , and adverb - - - verb , which The second group express ...
... emotional writing ( in their verbal manifestations ) will be briefly presented . The first group of features comprises certain combinations of adjective – noun , adverb adjective , and adverb - - - verb , which The second group express ...
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... emotional nature to something with which he is connected , this thing appears organically related to the person , a natural extension of his feelings . The objects themselves possess human characteristics and are in- volved with the ...
... emotional nature to something with which he is connected , this thing appears organically related to the person , a natural extension of his feelings . The objects themselves possess human characteristics and are in- volved with the ...
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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