The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... nature he meets with , whether in students who cannot tell the difference between an oak and an elm ( EO , III , 9 ; cf. A , 92 ) , have no " sense of nature " ( P , 118 ) , and do not know what a cicada looks like ( PF , 168 ) or in ...
... nature he meets with , whether in students who cannot tell the difference between an oak and an elm ( EO , III , 9 ; cf. A , 92 ) , have no " sense of nature " ( P , 118 ) , and do not know what a cicada looks like ( PF , 168 ) or in ...
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... nature of the fictional lives in his short stories and novels . The remarks concerning the nature of games quoted above are also pertinent comments on the nature of Nabokov's art - - 374 .
... nature of the fictional lives in his short stories and novels . The remarks concerning the nature of games quoted above are also pertinent comments on the nature of Nabokov's art - - 374 .
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... nature of reality . The phenomena of the world are presented as un- stable projections of individual consciousness , ethereal and unreliable . Wherever man turns , mirrors confront his search for knowledge about himself and the nature ...
... nature of reality . The phenomena of the world are presented as un- stable projections of individual consciousness , ethereal and unreliable . Wherever man turns , mirrors confront his search for knowledge about himself and the nature ...
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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