| #4690528 in Books | Laurie Maguire | 2007-11-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.80 x1.10 x8.50l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | Shakespeare s names||||"An eclectic and engaging look at onomastics." --Renaissance Quarterly||"[A] lively monograph." --Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900||"[An] engaging, learned, and far-reaching inquiry into names and naming...The book is beautifully wri
How do names attach themselves to particular objects and people and does this connection mean anything? This is a question which goes as far back as Plato and can still be seen in contemporary society with books of Names to Give Your Baby or Reader's Digest columns of apt names and professions. For the Renaissance the vexed question of naming was a subset of the larger but equally vexed subject of language: is language arbitrary and conventional (it is ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Shakespeare's Names (Oxford Shakespeare Topics (Hardcover)) | Laurie Maguire. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
