A CULTURL APPROACH TO DEFINING PERSONAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE ACT OF NAMING IN ELIOT’S SILAS MARNER
A CULTURAL APPROACH TO DEFINING PERSONAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE ACT OF NAMING IN ELIOT’S SILAS MARNER
Author(s): Nadia MorărașuSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: personal identity; naming practices; real and fictional personal names; cultural universals; identifiers and/or social classifiers.
Summary/Abstract: Starting from the working hypothesis that personal identity is central to any discussion of narrative identity, the first part of our study deals with the relationship between names seen as cultural universals and personal identity. In the second part, we shall restrain our area of interest to some naming practices in literature (more precisely, in George Eliot’s Silas Marner) and we shall finally focus upon three major trends in naming – pronominal reference, proper names and definite descriptions – with the definite purpose of indicating how names may contribute to defining personal identity in the narrative.
Journal: Cultural Perspectives - Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 164-171
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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