The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... novels . The 1974 novel Look at the Harlequins ! ( 120-26 ) contains the most detailed account of the problems and considerations involved in such a change . The awareness that the European period of his life was coming to an end , the ...
... novels . The 1974 novel Look at the Harlequins ! ( 120-26 ) contains the most detailed account of the problems and considerations involved in such a change . The awareness that the European period of his life was coming to an end , the ...
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... novel . At a Christmas party , Martha and Franz move through the chessboard of the living room like the " ver- satile queen " and the " trapped bishop " ( KQK , 142 ) ; though apparently moving independently from one another " they ...
... novel . At a Christmas party , Martha and Franz move through the chessboard of the living room like the " ver- satile queen " and the " trapped bishop " ( KQK , 142 ) ; though apparently moving independently from one another " they ...
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... Novel " , Tri - Quarterly , 10 ( Fall 1967 ) , 37-52 . Nicol , Charles , " The Mirrors of Sebastian Knight " , ir L.S. Dembo , ed . , Nabokov ( Madison , 1967 ) , pp.85-94 . Nicol , Charles , " Pnin's History " , Novel , 4 : 3 ( Spring ...
... Novel " , Tri - Quarterly , 10 ( Fall 1967 ) , 37-52 . Nicol , Charles , " The Mirrors of Sebastian Knight " , ir L.S. Dembo , ed . , Nabokov ( Madison , 1967 ) , pp.85-94 . Nicol , Charles , " Pnin's History " , Novel , 4 : 3 ( Spring ...
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