Literary Names
Personal Names in English Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 May 2014
- ISBN 9780198709688
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 216x145x17 mm
- Weight 374 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names are all explored in this erudite and fascinating book, which encompasses literature from ancient times to modern.
MoreLong description:
Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself. He traces the history of names through Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Thackeray, Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov, showing how names often turn out to be the thematic focus. Fowler shows that the associations of names, at first limited, become increasingly salient and sophisticated as literature itself develops.
An amusing, accessible book this volume merits a wide readership: specialists will hasten to pore over Fowler's comments on Paradise Lost or Lolita or on the characters' names in Twelfth Night, while the experienced reader will browse the book as a whole with recurring smiles of delight and gasps of edification.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Naming in History
Modes of Naming
Ihe Faerie Queene
Hidden Names
Shakespeare
Milton's Changing Names
Assumed and Imposed Names
Thackeray and Dickens
Arrays
Joyce and Nabokov
Afterword
References
Glossary
Index
