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Literary Names
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Author : Alastair Fowler
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Literary Names written by Alastair Fowler and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Names In Literature
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Author : Grace Alvarez-Altman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Amer
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Names In Literature written by Grace Alvarez-Altman and has been published by University Press of Amer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Literary Onomastics Conference. The 21 essays presented here show how the study of names can illuminate works of all ages and genres. The essays range over epics and comic books; embrace Shakespeare, Moliere Kafka, Carl Sandburg, and Toni Morrison, among many others; discuss the histories of names and their sounds; reveal how names identify a moment in time and how they communicate across the ages. Co-published with the American Name Society.
Names In Literature
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Author : Leonard R. N. Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Names In Literature written by Leonard R. N. Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
Starting with the game of literary name coining ("mudpies which endure") and how names in literature are used and studied, Leonard R. N. Ashley, ranges widely over old and modern literature: classical pseudonyms of the Renaissance, proper names in Shakespeare's plays, names in the occult, James Fenimore Cooper's naming skill in The Deerslayer, Sir W. S. Gilbert's in the Savoy operettas, William Goyen's in his novels, Edward Albee in his plays, Bret Easton Ellis' techniques in Less than Zero, Thomas Harris' in The Silence of the Lambs, "no-name narratology" in John Fowles' A Maggott, the slang names of money in folklore, political parody in Barbara Gershon's MacBird, weird names in Richard Powers' The Goldbug Variations, the uflagging inventiveness of Charles Dickens, and more. The book, by a much published expert on literary onomastics, shows fully how names are employed in various aspects of literature and even notes what reference books are available and what studies remain to be done. This is the book on Names in Literature.
What S In A Name
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Author : Joan Booth
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2006-12-31
What S In A Name written by Joan Booth and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems.
Names And Naming In Young Adult Literature
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Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2007-07-05
Names And Naming In Young Adult Literature written by Alleen Pace Nilsen and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-05 with Education categories.
This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques. Chapters address how authors use names to stretch readers' emotions, to reveal ethnic values and differences, to create 'other worlds,' and to establish tone. Other chapters focus on how authors use names to help readers remember who is who, such as J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books, or to communicate separate messages to adults and to young readers, as exemplified by Richard Handler in the Lemony Snicket books. Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature equips readers with the interest and the skill to make similar observations about names and naming when they read other books. Looking at the names an author has chosen to use is a wonderful first step in introducing readers to the concept of literary criticism as something to help readers get more pleasure and information from their reading. Public and school librarians, college instructors of young adult literature, teachers of creative writing, high school English teachers, and anyone else who is interested in young adult literature will find this book extremely interesting.
Deep Talk
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Author : Debra Walker King
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1998
Deep Talk written by Debra Walker King and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
King (English, U. of Florida) draws on the work of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to explore the interpretive guidelines necessary to read what she calls the "metatext" of names, where these chosen words comment on and revise the action in a novel by giving voice to unspoken themes and events. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Names
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Author : Don DeLillo
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-04-11
The Names written by Don DeLillo and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-11 with Fiction categories.
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. "The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times "DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement "DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times
The Study Of Names In Literature
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Author : Elizabeth M. Rajec
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Study Of Names In Literature written by Elizabeth M. Rajec and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Reference categories.
The Study Of Names In Literature
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Author : Elizabeth M. Rajec
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Study Of Names In Literature written by Elizabeth M. Rajec and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Reference categories.
Names For Light
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Author : Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2021-08-17
Names For Light written by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family’s history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she makes inquiries into their stories, she intertwines oral narratives with the official and mythic histories of Myanmar. But while her family’s stories move into the present, her own story—that of a writer seeking to understand who she is—moves into the past, until both converge at the end of the book. Born in Myanmar and raised in Bangkok and San Jose, Myint finds that she does not have typical memories of arriving in the United States; instead, she is haunted by what she cannot remember. By the silences lingering around what is spoken. By a chain of deaths in her family line, especially that of her older brother as a child. For Myint, absence is felt as strongly as presence. And, as she comes to understand, naming those absences, finding words for the unsaid, means discovering how those who have come before have shaped her life. Names for Light is a moving chronicle of the passage of time, of the long shadow of colonialism, and of a writer coming into her own as she reckons with her family’s legacy.