The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... expression " ( RL , 79 ) . The literary artist strives for the harmonious union of form and content and for the perfect realization of his vision in words . His individual artistic achievement , says Nabokov , " should be immediately ...
... expression " ( RL , 79 ) . The literary artist strives for the harmonious union of form and content and for the perfect realization of his vision in words . His individual artistic achievement , says Nabokov , " should be immediately ...
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... expression " under the sun " in the sense of ' ( anywhere ) in the world ' is humorously and appropriate- ly adapted to a new context when Humbert writes : " [ Lolita ] had for the asking any sweetmeat or movie under the moon " ( L ...
... expression " under the sun " in the sense of ' ( anywhere ) in the world ' is humorously and appropriate- ly adapted to a new context when Humbert writes : " [ Lolita ] had for the asking any sweetmeat or movie under the moon " ( L ...
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... expression and that of the new form , are present and contribute to the understanding . Most analogy formations of this kind inventively estab- lish two ( and sometimes more ) layers of meaning : the strong- ly present sense of the ...
... expression and that of the new form , are present and contribute to the understanding . Most analogy formations of this kind inventively estab- lish two ( and sometimes more ) layers of meaning : the strong- ly present sense of the ...
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