The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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... specific term . Similarly , the word chrysalis contains a welcome ety- mology , the root khrusos ' gold ' , which suggests both beauty and value . This aspect is repeatedly alluded to in Ada ( and Lolita ) , where chrysalids are called ...
... specific term . Similarly , the word chrysalis contains a welcome ety- mology , the root khrusos ' gold ' , which suggests both beauty and value . This aspect is repeatedly alluded to in Ada ( and Lolita ) , where chrysalids are called ...
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... specific context . Exactitude , ex- pressiveness , and originality are the primary factors de- termining his verbal ... specific experiences and ideas in specific linguistic forms , which are not ready - made but " made to measure " ( RL ...
... specific context . Exactitude , ex- pressiveness , and originality are the primary factors de- termining his verbal ... specific experiences and ideas in specific linguistic forms , which are not ready - made but " made to measure " ( RL ...
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... specific associations of past literary works , especially poetical compositions . Words like anadem , argent , glebe , gloam , illume , lampad , or ro- maunt are no longer part of current English usage and are rarely encountered in ...
... specific associations of past literary works , especially poetical compositions . Words like anadem , argent , glebe , gloam , illume , lampad , or ro- maunt are no longer part of current English usage and are rarely encountered in ...
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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