The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 284
... protagonists which may be dismissed at any time and reintroduced in some other work , where new facets of their lives are shown . The indi- vidual works show only sections of a character's life , se- lected aspects of a more ...
... protagonists which may be dismissed at any time and reintroduced in some other work , where new facets of their lives are shown . The indi- vidual works show only sections of a character's life , se- lected aspects of a more ...
Page 288
... protagonists . Many of the details surround- ing the characters and events are " trivialities ... accident- ally caught in the advance light of a great event " ( LH , 5-6 ) , inconspicuous threads of a destiny in the making . A good ...
... protagonists . Many of the details surround- ing the characters and events are " trivialities ... accident- ally caught in the advance light of a great event " ( LH , 5-6 ) , inconspicuous threads of a destiny in the making . A good ...
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... protagonists for whom the inability to read the book of life properly his later physical blindness emphasizes his lack of vision has fatal consequences . The ironical deity presiding over the destinies of the living has led another ...
... protagonists for whom the inability to read the book of life properly his later physical blindness emphasizes his lack of vision has fatal consequences . The ironical deity presiding over the destinies of the living has led another ...
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