A Legitimate Error: On One Surname in the Works of Leonid Andreev
The paper aims to substantiate/refute the implications behind the title character’s name of Leonid Andreev’s first novel Sashka Zhegulev, pertaining to some pronunciation and spelling allusions it suggests. The controversy arises from the alleged explicit reference to the toponym Zhiguli Mountains,...
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| description | The paper aims to substantiate/refute the implications behind the title character’s name of Leonid Andreev’s first novel Sashka Zhegulev, pertaining to some pronunciation and spelling allusions it suggests. The controversy arises from the alleged explicit reference to the toponym Zhiguli Mountains, with the inherent historical, cultural, and connotative marking. The author proves the fallacy of this approach that contradicts the whole concept of the novel, its main symbolism, and a number of textual facts, which cumulatively provide the evidence for the research. The latter is added up by linguocultural data and self-intertextual references to the writer’s early unfinished play. Concurrently, the article contains some general provisions on character naming in Andreev’s works (particularly, the use of speaking names, initial abbreviations, and elliptical “zero-structures”). The novel in question features a name change to the main character — as Sasha Pogodin becomes Sashka Zhegulev — which appears a fullpotent literary device when the latter form is put to the title. As the study suggests, the surname Zhegulev is brought by a number of phonetic-accentological and lexical-semantic (essentially dialectological) factors. The contextual analysis reveals a link to Andreev’s early literary attempts (sketches of the drama Zhekulin) and helps to establish the sequence of the onym’s formation: Zhekúlin — Zhegúlin — Zhegúlev — Zhégulev. The form Zhegulióv proves incorrect even with regard to the text itself and one fragment in particular when cited in accordance with the authentic “sounding” (positional changes of the sounds) that allows for the only option — Zhégulev. The author argues that decoding and interpreting the semantics of literary proper names requires attending to the pragmatics of the author, so as to avoid the trivial and thereby superficial associations which turn out persistently misleading both for the regular readers and the representatives of the academic community. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59aba03a470f45b18f91197943ec384c2022-12-21T17:17:57ZrusIzdatelstvo Uralskogo UniversitetaВопросы ономастики1994-24001994-24512019-06-0116219921210.15826/vopr_onom.2019.16.2.022A Legitimate Error: On One Surname in the Works of Leonid AndreevLyudmila N. Ikityan0Interregional Territorial Development InstituteThe paper aims to substantiate/refute the implications behind the title character’s name of Leonid Andreev’s first novel Sashka Zhegulev, pertaining to some pronunciation and spelling allusions it suggests. The controversy arises from the alleged explicit reference to the toponym Zhiguli Mountains, with the inherent historical, cultural, and connotative marking. The author proves the fallacy of this approach that contradicts the whole concept of the novel, its main symbolism, and a number of textual facts, which cumulatively provide the evidence for the research. The latter is added up by linguocultural data and self-intertextual references to the writer’s early unfinished play. Concurrently, the article contains some general provisions on character naming in Andreev’s works (particularly, the use of speaking names, initial abbreviations, and elliptical “zero-structures”). The novel in question features a name change to the main character — as Sasha Pogodin becomes Sashka Zhegulev — which appears a fullpotent literary device when the latter form is put to the title. As the study suggests, the surname Zhegulev is brought by a number of phonetic-accentological and lexical-semantic (essentially dialectological) factors. The contextual analysis reveals a link to Andreev’s early literary attempts (sketches of the drama Zhekulin) and helps to establish the sequence of the onym’s formation: Zhekúlin — Zhegúlin — Zhegúlev — Zhégulev. The form Zhegulióv proves incorrect even with regard to the text itself and one fragment in particular when cited in accordance with the authentic “sounding” (positional changes of the sounds) that allows for the only option — Zhégulev. The author argues that decoding and interpreting the semantics of literary proper names requires attending to the pragmatics of the author, so as to avoid the trivial and thereby superficial associations which turn out persistently misleading both for the regular readers and the representatives of the academic community.http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/doi/10.15826/vopr_onom.2019.16.2.022.pdfnaming in literatureliterary onomasticsproper namethe poetics of the proper namename change as a literary devicename (title) of a literary workLeonid AndreevSashka Zhegulev |
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| title_short | A Legitimate Error: On One Surname in the Works of Leonid Andreev |
| title_sort | legitimate error on one surname in the works of leonid andreev |
| topic | naming in literature literary onomastics proper name the poetics of the proper name name change as a literary device name (title) of a literary work Leonid Andreev Sashka Zhegulev |
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