Reading Nabokov's Pale Fire is a magical discovery of artistry. Years elapsed, the"who invented whom"question remains an enigma. Through expounding four current interpretations and tracing the relationship among the m...
In an effort to find out how Nabokov manages to achieve aesthetic immortality in Speak Memory,a detailed text analysis is conducted on the techniques he has utilized.Afterwards,it draws the conclusion that Nabokov,fir...
Nabokov believes that “art is a method by which the writer is able to cause a special aesthetic experience among thereader”;language, structure, style and other means of expression are always more important than the...
This paper aims to explore the metaphorical meaning of"resemblance"and the wicked purposes of the characters in Vladimir Nabokov's early work Despair.And it reveals that the purpose of Nabokov was to criticize the gre...
Lu Xun and Nabokov were both independent and unique literary writers,and both were criticized for their adherence to literal translation theory and practice.The author,through intensive reading of their translation wo...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), a Russian-born Ameri- can writer, is one of the most gifted exilic writers of the twentieth century. His first English novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, which inhe...
This paper demonstrates the rhetoric technique, narrative function and sign decoding of Nabokocian otherworld in LoBta and Pale Fire to detect not only the presence of the metaphysical otherworld, but also the faint i...
There is the voice of the author in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Readers can hear the voice from forword, the story, and afterword. In the Forword, Vivian Darkbloom is the palindromic name of the author Vladimir Naboko...
With its uttermost innovate form and its puzzle content, Pale Fire has sustained Nabokov the most intensive scholarly attention ever since its publication. Despite a great deal of criticism on the novel Pale Fire the ...