The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 412
... mind peering at the iridescence of the invisible through the prison bars of integers " ( BS , 170 ) . And Nabokov ... mind and their reach is re- stricted . Unable to make " that simple mental jerk , which would ... set free imprisoned ...
... mind peering at the iridescence of the invisible through the prison bars of integers " ( BS , 170 ) . And Nabokov ... mind and their reach is re- stricted . Unable to make " that simple mental jerk , which would ... set free imprisoned ...
Page 427
... mind . Then comes a new moment of specious awareness ... Yet who knows ? Is this reality , the final reality , or just a new deceptive dream ? ( KQK , 20-21 ) Hermann ( DS , 10 € -7 ) and Shade ( PF , 65 ) have similar experi- ences of ...
... mind . Then comes a new moment of specious awareness ... Yet who knows ? Is this reality , the final reality , or just a new deceptive dream ? ( KQK , 20-21 ) Hermann ( DS , 10 € -7 ) and Shade ( PF , 65 ) have similar experi- ences of ...
Page 436
... mind , directed by someone else . He was only a confused spectator , who had accidentally blundered into the middle of a showing without realizing what the film was all about . He has been unable to bring to life ( cf. LD , 8 ff . ) the ...
... mind , directed by someone else . He was only a confused spectator , who had accidentally blundered into the middle of a showing without realizing what the film was all about . He has been unable to bring to life ( cf. LD , 8 ff . ) the ...
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