What’s Behind a Name? Origins and Meaning of Some of the Recurrent Characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
Nominative symbolism in fantasy is a tool to attribute certain traits to literary characters and thus to convey meaning which enriches the readers’ comprehension of the fictitious personality. Proper names in the English naming tradition are not generally seen as means of alluding to the character...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2020-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/9244 |