The kind of scenes you describe in the book could
be likened to a series of what in film are called 'compilation cuts' - a
sequence made up of a number of rapidly changing and not necessarily related
scenes/images which together create a distinct and vital impression of a place
or the sense of passing time.
Montage would also be an appropriate term. In
Webster: 1 : the production of a rapid succession of images in a
motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas; 2 a : a
literary, musical, or artistic composite of juxtaposed more or less
heterogeneous elements.
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES/UCL
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Sent: 28 April, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on
film
Andrew and
List
1. You are
correct. The word "panorama", as generally used, suggests
a
continous, perhaps superficial and generalized, view quite contrary
to
Nabokov's methodic details. There must be a better word for
the
multiple, detailed, trans-American scenes. [Perhaps I was influenced
by
an older meaning of the word. In my Webster's International
2nd
Edition: "3. ....; a mental image of a series of images or
events,
etc