The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 251
... feelings . Everything a character perceives is somehow suffused with his particular awareness , feeling , or attitude . He in- jects , as it were , his subjective view into things and makes reality part of his intellectual and emotional ...
... feelings . Everything a character perceives is somehow suffused with his particular awareness , feeling , or attitude . He in- jects , as it were , his subjective view into things and makes reality part of his intellectual and emotional ...
Page 254
... feelings . The objects themselves possess human characteristics and are in- volved with the emotional situation of the ... feeling . Thus " an old man's desper- ate hand " should be understood to mean either ' a desperate old man's hand ...
... feelings . The objects themselves possess human characteristics and are in- volved with the emotional situation of the ... feeling . Thus " an old man's desper- ate hand " should be understood to mean either ' a desperate old man's hand ...
Page 258
... feelings to ab- stract qualities , general concepts , man - made objects , and natural phenomena is a general and pervasive ... feeling , intention , or action .. Many of the examples of personification are imaginative anthropomorphic 41 ...
... feelings to ab- stract qualities , general concepts , man - made objects , and natural phenomena is a general and pervasive ... feeling , intention , or action .. Many of the examples of personification are imaginative anthropomorphic 41 ...
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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