The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 286
... patterns of related themes in the past development of his life " ( SO , 141 ) , finding " thematic lines " 21 - and " thematic designs " ( SM , 27 ) , combining and juxtaposing " remembered details " ( SO , 186 ) , and discovering ...
... patterns of related themes in the past development of his life " ( SO , 141 ) , finding " thematic lines " 21 - and " thematic designs " ( SM , 27 ) , combining and juxtaposing " remembered details " ( SO , 186 ) , and discovering ...
Page 397
... patterns and on the other hand it expresses Nabokov's conviction that the seemingly unrelated parts of life really belong to larger , continuous patterns which , if pursued in depth and perceptively , may show a meaningful de- sign ...
... patterns and on the other hand it expresses Nabokov's conviction that the seemingly unrelated parts of life really belong to larger , continuous patterns which , if pursued in depth and perceptively , may show a meaningful de- sign ...
Page 454
... patterns ... no better joy would I choose than to fold its magnificent carpet in such a fashion as to make the design of today coincide with the past , with a former pattern ... ... by finding congruences with the remote , to revisit my ...
... patterns ... no better joy would I choose than to fold its magnificent carpet in such a fashion as to make the design of today coincide with the past , with a former pattern ... ... by finding congruences with the remote , to revisit my ...
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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