The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page 258
... things qualities of human expressiveness and personal significance . Nabokov's fictional worlds are emotionally perceived and sensorily felt emphatic worlds which exist alongside of , not apart from , the sphere of human activities ...
... things qualities of human expressiveness and personal significance . Nabokov's fictional worlds are emotionally perceived and sensorily felt emphatic worlds which exist alongside of , not apart from , the sphere of human activities ...
Page 271
... things to an unusual degree . His particular vision transforms the ordinary appearance of things into revelations of brilliant newness ; it penetrates , so to speak , the banal surface of things and shows us their freshness and ...
... things to an unusual degree . His particular vision transforms the ordinary appearance of things into revelations of brilliant newness ; it penetrates , so to speak , the banal surface of things and shows us their freshness and ...
Page 400
... things ( and to the reader ) was " of Gogol's own making and with a special refraction of its own " ( GO , 41 ) . Similarly , Nabokov's art is not concerned with " realism " ( cf. SO , 118 ) , but creates its own special version of ...
... things ( and to the reader ) was " of Gogol's own making and with a special refraction of its own " ( GO , 41 ) . Similarly , Nabokov's art is not concerned with " realism " ( cf. SO , 118 ) , but creates its own special version of ...
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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