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----- Original Message -----
From: George Shimanovich
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: Parenthetical Images
I would call it "V V Narration" device.
Made of two V's put on a side (or 'na bok') and a brief narration inside
George :)
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:03 PM
Subject: Fw: Parenthetical Images
EDNOTE. Nabokov's use of typographic icons is a virtually unexplored aspect of his style.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Wilkenfeld
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Parenthetical Images
Dear List,
I was wondering whether VN's striking use of two short, clarifying images within a set of parentheses (forming a miniature oval canvas) was his own invention or if it had a precursor in literature. Has anyone coined a term for such a literary device? I have in mind the kind of designation that VN used when he described in his Lectures on Literature the features of Tolstoy's style: eg, "the functional ethical comparison." How about "the parenthetical oval portrait"? (Though I guess that label would misleadingly conjure up the Edgar Allan Poe story in the reader's mind).
Thanks.
Best,
Jacob Wilkenfeld
"Then came a small square (four benches, a bed of pansies) round which the trolley steered with rasping disapproval." -from 'The Aurelian'
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