The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 148
... ( frequently concrete and specific ) and the current sense ( frequently figurative and abstract ) of a word or words produces a vivification and expansion of meaning . Some distinctions in Nabokov's use of etymological word- play can be ...
... ( frequently concrete and specific ) and the current sense ( frequently figurative and abstract ) of a word or words produces a vivification and expansion of meaning . Some distinctions in Nabokov's use of etymological word- play can be ...
Page 234
... frequently the visual reality is described in human terms ( personification ) , injecting a sense of mysterious animation into inanimate objects . So- called inanimate nature leads an unkr.own , separate life whose meaning , dimly felt ...
... frequently the visual reality is described in human terms ( personification ) , injecting a sense of mysterious animation into inanimate objects . So- called inanimate nature leads an unkr.own , separate life whose meaning , dimly felt ...
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... frequently employed in connection with man's search for understanding of himself , as a symbol of self - contemplation and self - reflection in a world where it is hard to distinguish between appearance and reality . The mirror is an ...
... frequently employed in connection with man's search for understanding of himself , as a symbol of self - contemplation and self - reflection in a world where it is hard to distinguish between appearance and reality . The mirror is an ...
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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