Literary Onomastics

Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying how names function and convey meaning in works of literature and in genres including poetry, novels, science fiction, and fantasy.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Approaches to Literary Onomastics
Chapter 2: Naming as Self Reference in Poems by Sidney, Shakespeare, and Donne
Chapter 3: Proclaiming Names in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies
Chapter 4: Onomastic Metaphor: The Rhetoric of Right Names in A Wizard of Earthsea
Chapter 5: 'First and last names on a direct collision course': Immigrant Naming Strategies, Ethnic Identities, and Cultural Assimilation in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Chapter 6: Names and World-Building in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
Chapter 7: Angry Young Women and Rebel Writers: The Naming of a Female Literary Movement

About the author

By Dorothy Dodge Robbins - Contributions by Susan J. Behrens; Dorothy Dodge Robbins; Christine De Vinne; Kara Kennedy; Christopher L. Robinson; Ernest P. Rufleth and Derek R. Whaley

Summary

Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying how names function and convey meaning in works of literature and in genres including poetry, novels, science fiction, and fantasy.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Dodge Robbins, Robbins Dorothy Dodge
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781666905922
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-592-2
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Historical & comparative linguistics, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Historical and comparative linguistics