The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... light in an un- derground passage in words that strongly foreground the 1 : " seemed to illume with leaps of light the low ceiling " ( PF , 126-27 ) . The rapid iambs suggest the sudden movement of the light dancing on the ceiling ; the ...
... light in an un- derground passage in words that strongly foreground the 1 : " seemed to illume with leaps of light the low ceiling " ( PF , 126-27 ) . The rapid iambs suggest the sudden movement of the light dancing on the ceiling ; the ...
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... light under the lone streetlamp of the road below ( PF , 87 ) the resulting light lent a lunar tinge ... ( SM , 292 ) ( RL , 191 ) a glow of blue light at my elbow the globes of lilac - tinted lights ( 0 , 51 ) a gleam of lambert light ...
... light under the lone streetlamp of the road below ( PF , 87 ) the resulting light lent a lunar tinge ... ( SM , 292 ) ( RL , 191 ) a glow of blue light at my elbow the globes of lilac - tinted lights ( 0 , 51 ) a gleam of lambert light ...
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... light ( DF , 41 ; SM , 270 ) lambent light languid lady 223 ) ( BS , ( DS , 14 ) languid lap ( LH , 100 ) lawless lucidity ( I , 81 ) lean lad ( A , 396 ) leaner layer ( A , 360 ) leaping leopard ( BD , 34 ) liberal libations ( L , 243 ) ...
... light ( DF , 41 ; SM , 270 ) lambent light languid lady 223 ) ( BS , ( DS , 14 ) languid lap ( LH , 100 ) lawless lucidity ( I , 81 ) lean lad ( A , 396 ) leaner layer ( A , 360 ) leaping leopard ( BD , 34 ) liberal libations ( L , 243 ) ...
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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