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Multisensoryczność "Listów do Very" Vladimira Nabokova
Multisensory Experiences in Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

Author(s): Anna Ginter
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: multisensory experiences; synaesthesia; synaesthetic metaphor; Vladimir Nabokov; Vera Slonim

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the present paper is to investigate and describe the nature of synaesthetic devices employed by Vladimir Nabokov evident in his letters to his wife – Vera Slonim. The analysis of the language and style of the matrimonial intimate correspondence, written for one reader only, is expected to provide evidence allowing one to establish whether the numerous variants of perceptual synaesthesia employed by Nabokov in all his literary texts reflect his genuine synaesthetic experiences or whether such can only serve as examples of the writer’s passion for creating a kind of perceptual play on words and puzzles.

  • Issue Year: 2/2021
  • Issue No: XXIII
  • Page Range: 217-228
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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