The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 65
... narrator's personality . The distance felt by some between their personal experience and the need to express their thoughts and feelings is consciously or unconsciously influenced by the extent of their familiarity with the language and ...
... narrator's personality . The distance felt by some between their personal experience and the need to express their thoughts and feelings is consciously or unconsciously influenced by the extent of their familiarity with the language and ...
Page 249
... narration ) as compared to three short stories and one novel ( omniscient narration ) . If nothing else , this change signals a shift from objective , detached to subjective , involved point of view . The works without a personal narrator ...
... narration ) as compared to three short stories and one novel ( omniscient narration ) . If nothing else , this change signals a shift from objective , detached to subjective , involved point of view . The works without a personal narrator ...
Page 326
... narrator , being offered the part of an ano- nymous gentleman in the same play ( 178 ) , declines , but later he is the anonymous gentleman who writes Pnin . Ironically , it is the narrator who has an affair with Liza , who marries Pnin ...
... narrator , being offered the part of an ano- nymous gentleman in the same play ( 178 ) , declines , but later he is the anonymous gentleman who writes Pnin . Ironically , it is the narrator who has an affair with Liza , who marries Pnin ...
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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