The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... refer to an academic position , the adjectives denote different levels of meaning : " full " is used in a fi- gurative sense and refers to status , " lean " is used in a phy- sical sense and refers to stature . Their juxtaposition in a ...
... refer to an academic position , the adjectives denote different levels of meaning : " full " is used in a fi- gurative sense and refers to status , " lean " is used in a phy- sical sense and refers to stature . Their juxtaposition in a ...
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... refers to stat- ues with phalli ] photophobic , a . ( SM , in the caption to the photo facing p . 160 ) Tphoto & phobia ' fear ' ; here the adjective refers to a dog's fear of being photographed ( WID : ' shunning or avoiding light ...
... refers to stat- ues with phalli ] photophobic , a . ( SM , in the caption to the photo facing p . 160 ) Tphoto & phobia ' fear ' ; here the adjective refers to a dog's fear of being photographed ( WID : ' shunning or avoiding light ...
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... refers to sexual intercourse ; the coinage combines knub or nub ' a knot or protuberance ; a lump ' with the ... refers to the furrow between the buttocks ] plaything , n . ( L , 48 ) [ in the context the meaning is pur- posely ambiguous ...
... refers to sexual intercourse ; the coinage combines knub or nub ' a knot or protuberance ; a lump ' with the ... refers to the furrow between the buttocks ] plaything , n . ( L , 48 ) [ in the context the meaning is pur- posely ambiguous ...
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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