The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 65
... experience and his public stance of recorder of this experience are disparate forces creating a tension which is sometimes eased jocularly or ironically , and some- times hidden behind rhetoric , wordplay , or excessive formal- ity . In ...
... experience and his public stance of recorder of this experience are disparate forces creating a tension which is sometimes eased jocularly or ironically , and some- times hidden behind rhetoric , wordplay , or excessive formal- ity . In ...
Page 204
... experience inevitably has a hard edge of despair . The discrepancy between appear- ance and reality , present and past , aspiration and experience , consciousness and mortality is the source of the suffering and pain to which many of ...
... experience inevitably has a hard edge of despair . The discrepancy between appear- ance and reality , present and past , aspiration and experience , consciousness and mortality is the source of the suffering and pain to which many of ...
Page 268
... experience , atmosphere or scene , with the help of a few deft details vividly sug- gesting the essential character of a subject : a distant land : the bazaar at sunrise , the naked children , the din , the monstrous size of fruit ( G ...
... experience , atmosphere or scene , with the help of a few deft details vividly sug- gesting the essential character of a subject : a distant land : the bazaar at sunrise , the naked children , the din , the monstrous size of fruit ( G ...
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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