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Literary Names - Personal Names in English Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Literary Names - Personal Names in English Literature (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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