The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... linguistic and cul- tural conditions ( e.g. I , BS , PF , or A ) . Although one cannot speak of a chronological development of Nabokov's fiction from monolingual to multilingual worlds , there is a larger presence of cultural ...
... linguistic and cul- tural conditions ( e.g. I , BS , PF , or A ) . Although one cannot speak of a chronological development of Nabokov's fiction from monolingual to multilingual worlds , there is a larger presence of cultural ...
Page 44
... linguistic talent , and partly to his extraordinary memory . For the task of perfecting his English , he found Webster's Inter- national Dictionary ( WID ) an authoritative and exhaustive source of information and immediately started ...
... linguistic talent , and partly to his extraordinary memory . For the task of perfecting his English , he found Webster's Inter- national Dictionary ( WID ) an authoritative and exhaustive source of information and immediately started ...
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... linguistic 5 affinities " and Nabokov makes use of these linguistic af- finities for a variety of purposes in his fiction , sometimes with humorous intention , but in most cases to achieve the necessary element of ambiguity and ...
... linguistic 5 affinities " and Nabokov makes use of these linguistic af- finities for a variety of purposes in his fiction , sometimes with humorous intention , but in most cases to achieve the necessary element of ambiguity and ...
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