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Synopsis
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.
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This volume shows the richness, the variety, and the depth of meaning with which names are used in literary works....It is a marvelously varied, informative, and useful collection.--John Algeo, University of Georgia
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- PublisherUniversity Press of America
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 081916609X
- ISBN 13 9780819166098
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages248
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