On Intertextual Interpretation of Leitmotivs and Images of Lewis Carroll’s Fairy Tales “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” in Nabokov’s Novels

Abstract

The paper comprises versatile intertextual connections between Lewis Carroll’s fairy tales (“Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”) and Nabokov’s novels as regards their system of images, leitmotivs and key-words, similar poetic principles and elements of structure, artistically implemented by Vladimir Nabokov in the text with the purpose of demonstrating the infinite resources of the language as the instrument of creation.