The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... language and culture . Since English was the language which appealed most to him and with which he was most familiar next to Russian , Nabokov's choice was between England ( where he unsuccessfully tried to secure a position ) and ...
... language and culture . Since English was the language which appealed most to him and with which he was most familiar next to Russian , Nabokov's choice was between England ( where he unsuccessfully tried to secure a position ) and ...
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... languages " ; it is clearly an infatuation with language itself as the source and foundation Inot the mere in- terpreter- of " reality " . An original writer be- comes a language in himself , and like any other language gives names to ...
... languages " ; it is clearly an infatuation with language itself as the source and foundation Inot the mere in- terpreter- of " reality " . An original writer be- comes a language in himself , and like any other language gives names to ...
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... languages he knows in his fictional works . Both writers are extremely language conscious , perfecting their lan- guage in exile ; both are superbly gifted innovators and inventors of language ; both write an English rich in word- play ...
... languages he knows in his fictional works . Both writers are extremely language conscious , perfecting their lan- guage in exile ; both are superbly gifted innovators and inventors of language ; both write an English rich in word- play ...
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