Stabilization and Problematization. The Names in Victoriano Salado Alvarez' Literary Texts
Por:
Vital Diaz, Alberto
Publicada:
1 ene 2021
Categoría:
Literature and literary theory
Resumen:
The present paper aims to show the use of anthroponyms in the narrative
work of Mexican writer Victoriano Salado alvarez (1867-1931). The
analysis goes through four different types of texts, highly
representatives of Victoriano Salado's work: 1) short stories with
innovative tendencies from a stylistic or discursive standpoint; 2)
short stories of conventional plot; 3) dialogues or theatrical-like
texts, and 4) fragments of historical novel, mainly from his work
Episodios nacionales mexicanos (1902-1906). These usages are shown in
the line of the onomastic influence by a Hispanic tradition with clear
traces of Miguel de Cervantes and Benito Perez Galdos. This paper claims
that usage of proper names is closely related not only to a discursive
strategy but also to a poetics of literature through which we may see a
useful field of inquiry of literary texts. In an author such close to
realism of Spanish tradition as Salado alvarez, formal principles like
stability of names as well as the identity ``name-character'', through
which here we call the Golden rule of name, are set into contrast with
other principles like destabilization, instability and problematization
in the literary onomastics, closer to subsequent avant-garde traditions
in literature.
Filiaciones:
Vital Diaz, Alberto:
Diaz, AV (Corresponding Author), Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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