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Among the frequent cases of retardatio nominis in Dante’s Commedia, particularly significant is that concerning the name of the protagonist of the journey, revealed only in Purg. XXX, v. 55. The essay, after delineating the overall system of retardatio in the poem, focuses on narrative strategies that feed the ‘wait’ of the name Dante, through a network of hidden isotopies, highlighting its importance for author’s narrative choices.
This paper aims to plunge into the onomatological world of Horcynus Orca, a novel published in 1975 by Mondadori, created by the epic and deforming genius of the Sicilian (Fortunato) Stefano D’Arrigo (1919-1992). The episode between the Venetian ensign Monanin and the Sicilian fishermen Crocitto and ’Ndria Cambria (who is the main character of the novel) elucidates the difference between name and thing, signifier and significance, imposed word and reality. Starting from the two common names of a unique and ambivalent marine animal – the Sicilian ‘fera’ and the Italian ‘delfino’ – the paper tries to penetrate the expressionistic poetic world of Horcynus and to analyse the powerful and layered language processing: here the names are consequences of the facts; they are emblems of the ‘saw it with my own eyes’ and not of the ‘hearsay’. Therefore, it can hardly happen that ‘fera’ could be undermined by ‘delfino’ in the mind of a fisherman: «the name of an abstract thing, or rather, the abstract name of a real thing»
La giostra degli scambi revolves around the theme of mistaken identity, a subject Camilleri takes from Pirandello. In the novel, scangi happen all the time and the victims of cases of mistaken identity are identified by names that are completely changed (stracangiati). These names belong to characters with a liminal identity, who walk the thin line separating innocence from guilt.
This paper aims to study the role of proper names within a philological and linguistic analysis, focusing on the Catalan Version (K) of Marco Polo's work. First, the paper mentions the main features of proper names; then, it offers a sketch of the textual tradition of the Devisement du Monde and introduces the case of K Version. Finally, it studies a series of proper names taken from K, whose graphic and phonetic form reveals the linguistic origin and history of the Catalan Version. Sommario 1 Preliminari. – 2 Caratteristiche dei nomi propri. – 3 La tradizione del Devisement du Monde e la Versione K. – 4 I nomi propri nell'analisi filologico-linguistica. – 5 Conclusioni.
The essay analyzes the notion of inadequacy in literary onomastics: ghost names; anachronisms and geographical inconsistencies, unintentionally ridiculous names, etc. In summary, a name is inadequate if it does not reach the functional target for which it is created by an author. However, the notion of inadequacy is relative: it depends on historical ages and literary contexts.
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