Leving solves Nabokov’s puzzles we’d otherwise likely never even notice. For the benefit of future Nabokov scholarship, Leving points out where more in-depth studies are required and graciously directs the reader towards the good work of his peers. The guide contains his own opinions and interpretations, but also sorts out and quotes at length other famous Nabokov scholars, and in this way it’s really a log and index documenting how Leving came to arrive at his insights.

Leving is succinct, never boring, and refreshingly avoids needlessly ostentatious academic jargon. His book is deep and probing only where it’s warranted. Nabokov’s brilliant novel requires an expertly researched book, but one that’s especially lucid, organized, and readable too. Leving’s guide Keys to The Gift is an invaluable and comprehensive companion that doesn’t only help the reader keep together plot lines, but reveals the secret to all the novel’s various enigmas-multilingual word play, hidden signs and symbols, and literary and historical references and allusions. Nabokov draws from his encyclopaedic knowledge of Russia’s historic and contemporary writers and literary critics to prove his love stems from a place of great depth. It is his ninth and final novel written originally in Russian, and is considered to be the high point of these novels, as well as one of his most complicated overall. The Gift is Nabokov’s passionate and complex love song devoted to Russian literature. He got me hooked on Nabokov, so I was excited when Leving’s new book on a major Nabokov novel was released last year. I was a student in Yuri Leving’s Survey of Russian Literature class at Dalhousie University in 2007. The article reveals the most frequent metaphorical models of creative process in the novel and the areas of its metaphoric conceptualization.Reviewed in this essay: Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel, by Yuri Leving. The theoretical basis of research is the descriptor theory of metaphor by A.N. In this article we analyze metaphoric representation of the concept “creative process” in V. Nabokov’s works and abound both in conventional and creative metaphors. Nabokov Russian literature linguistic analysis of literary text Summary/Abstract: Descriptions of the process of artistic creation take an outstanding place in V.

Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství Keywords: metaphor descriptor theory of metaphor V. Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Stylistics, American Literature NABOKOV’S NOVEL “THE GIFT”Īuthor(s): Albina Novikova, Yuliya Vladimirovna Golovnyova METAPHORIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “CREATIVE PROCESS” IN V.

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