The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 239
... subjective patterns of color combinations and iridescent reflections . Nabokov's literary technique resembles in some respects the impressionist painter's approach to his subject . He ad- mits that " some of [ his ] best concerns are ...
... subjective patterns of color combinations and iridescent reflections . Nabokov's literary technique resembles in some respects the impressionist painter's approach to his subject . He ad- mits that " some of [ his ] best concerns are ...
Page 251
... subjective view into things and makes reality part of his intellectual and emotional possession . Every description inevitably contains an ingredient of in- dividual perception and evaluation , is the result of personal response . A ...
... subjective view into things and makes reality part of his intellectual and emotional possession . Every description inevitably contains an ingredient of in- dividual perception and evaluation , is the result of personal response . A ...
Page 305
... ( subjective objective , individual general , emotion- al detached ) . Often it involves a difference of vision , knowledge , or feeling between the author ( and reader ) and the characters . - - - In the sentence " At these words a false ...
... ( subjective objective , individual general , emotion- al detached ) . Often it involves a difference of vision , knowledge , or feeling between the author ( and reader ) and the characters . - - - In the sentence " At these words a false ...
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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