Onomastic Intrusion in Speculative Fiction
Onomastic Intrusion in Speculative Fiction

Summary/Abstract: Literary onomastics deals with onyms in literary works, and onyms in speculative fiction can be a vast field of potential research matter. Onomastic intrusion is the occurrence when authors give real, existing names to invented persons, places or things, which by their characteristics cannot bear those names. The paper compares and analyzes anthroponyms found in several Anglo-Saxon and Croatian works of speculative fiction, explains the probable reasons for the use of those anthroponyms, and evaluates them with respect to the notion of onomastic intrusion.

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