Vol. 63 No. 4 (2015)
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A Sense of the Magical: Names in Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter

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  • Christopher L. Robinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/0027773815Z.000000000121

Published 2015-10-02

Keywords

  • nicknames,
  • naming,
  • politeness,
  • pragmatics,
  • speech acts

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Abstract

Contributing to the enchantment of the author’s celebrated prose, the names in Lord Dunsany’s best-known novel evoke a world of fairytale, myth, and song; ring true to the characters and places they designate; and fashion themselves into a constellation of correspondences in sound, form, and sense.

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