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Literary onomastics : the role of names in the short stories of Joyce Carol Oates

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis is concerned with the function of names in the short stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I have distinguished between fifteen different naming strategies. These are various ways in which names participate in her short narratives. These naming strategies are not unique to Oates; she is one of a long tradition of authors who play extensively with ...
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Literary Onomastics and Language Technology

open access: yes, 2010
In this chapter, the authors describe the development and application of language technology for intelligent information access to the content of digitized cultural heritage collections in the form of Swedish classical literary works. This technology offers sophisticated and flexible support functions to literary scholars and researchers.
Dimitrios Kokkinakis
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On the Issue of Onomastics Rendering in Literary Translation

open access: yesFolk Art and Ethnology, 2023
The article is dedicated to the problem of rendering of eloquent proper names in the translations of fiction writing. Attention is paid to the Hungarian and English translations of The Black Council historical novel by Panteleimon Kulish. The author has informed the editor of the magazine Moskvityanin of M. Pogodin on October 15, 1843.
Viktoria Lebovics
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The תורה in רות – Notes on Judean Literary Onomastics

Hebrew Union College Annual, 2021
Scholars have long recognized that the proper names in the Book of Ruth are narratively relevant, signaling characters’ and places’ natures, fates, and so on. Nonetheless, the various historical and modern explanations of the name of the book’s protagonist, the Moabite Ruth, are of relatively weak philological and narrative merit and, as such, are in ...
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Analysis of Literary and Historical Approaches to Onomastics

International Journal of Pedagogics
This article analyzes A. Fowler’s “Literary Names”, C. Clark’s research on medieval English surnames and place names, and E. Ekwall’s studies on English toponymy. Within the scope of literary and historical onomastics, the importance of personal and geographical names in social, cultural, and historical contexts is explored.
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Naming the Trees: Literary Onomastics in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World

Studies in American Fiction, 2006
"I wish we could name them all. But there's no end to them." ... "If you are a-going to name them all," said Nancy, "we sha'n't get home to-night; you might as well name all the trees." --Susan Warner, The Wide, Wide World Without a Name "We have both got the same name," said she, as they went along a wide corridor; "how shall we know which is which?" "
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