The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... play in particular . ( Words can never possess reality , because in Nabokov's view reality is " an infinite succession of steps , levels of perception , false bottoms " ( SO , 11 ) and can only be approximated through language . R.A. ...
... play in particular . ( Words can never possess reality , because in Nabokov's view reality is " an infinite succession of steps , levels of perception , false bottoms " ( SO , 11 ) and can only be approximated through language . R.A. ...
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... play staged on the surface of the world . Within the seemingly random , confused appear- ances of life , there are occasional indications of a direc- tor's hand staging and arranging ... play within the play , The Enchanted Hunters , - 438 -
... play staged on the surface of the world . Within the seemingly random , confused appear- ances of life , there are occasional indications of a direc- tor's hand staging and arranging ... play within the play , The Enchanted Hunters , - 438 -
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A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose Jürgen Bodenstein. The play within the play , The Enchanted Hunters , is a mirror of the main action , whose " profound message " is that " mirage and reality merge in love " ( L , 203 ) , a ...
A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose Jürgen Bodenstein. The play within the play , The Enchanted Hunters , is a mirror of the main action , whose " profound message " is that " mirage and reality merge in love " ( L , 203 ) , a ...
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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