The essay focuses on the affective component of personal names in three representative literary texts: E.A. Poe’s “William Wilson,” Herman Melville’s Moby- Dick, and Don DeLillo’s Underworld. it argues that the authors’ choice of names, and the way they play with artistic doubling, is functional to both their exploration of individual and national identity, and their representation of historical and cultural transformations in the United States.
Doppio o quasi doppio. Nome, storia, rappresentazione in Poe, Melville, DeLillo
CAMBONI, Marina
2014-01-01
Abstract
The essay focuses on the affective component of personal names in three representative literary texts: E.A. Poe’s “William Wilson,” Herman Melville’s Moby- Dick, and Don DeLillo’s Underworld. it argues that the authors’ choice of names, and the way they play with artistic doubling, is functional to both their exploration of individual and national identity, and their representation of historical and cultural transformations in the United States.File in questo prodotto:
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