The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... meaning in language in order to suggest the fragility and dubiousness of his protagonists ' experience . He works on two levels of meaning concurrently , the first overtly asserting the reality perceived by the characters , the second ...
... meaning in language in order to suggest the fragility and dubiousness of his protagonists ' experience . He works on two levels of meaning concurrently , the first overtly asserting the reality perceived by the characters , the second ...
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... meaning is the one immediately understood , whereas the secondary meaning is often an amusing or ironical sidelight on an additional aspect of something . The homophonous or polysemous wordplay is implicit inso- far as the ambiguity of ...
... meaning is the one immediately understood , whereas the secondary meaning is often an amusing or ironical sidelight on an additional aspect of something . The homophonous or polysemous wordplay is implicit inso- far as the ambiguity of ...
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... meaning . Examples : life's foolscap ( SM , 25 ) " It's a must ! " ( A , 456 ) 1. a size of paper 2. a cap worn by ... meaning of a word is foregrounded by the repetition of the same word in a different sense . Though the context seems ...
... meaning . Examples : life's foolscap ( SM , 25 ) " It's a must ! " ( A , 456 ) 1. a size of paper 2. a cap worn by ... meaning of a word is foregrounded by the repetition of the same word in a different sense . Though the context seems ...
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