THE HERMENEUTIC POWER OF CHARACTONYMS: A CASE STUDY

Yana Manova-Georgieva, Elena D. Andonova-Kalapsazova
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The aim of the article is to analyze the symbolic meaning of the name of Havelock Vetinari, one of the most recurrent literary characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. The focus of the discussion are the literary and historical associations embedded in his name and his titles, which help the informed reader comprehend the complexity of the character’s behavior in the narratives. The intertextual appropriations and echoes at the heart of the name derive from the author’s multilayered encyclopedic knowledge that underlies the coining of the character’s name. Havelock Vetinari is a noteworthy example of how the invented name of a literary character can become a powerful tool for meaning making in literature. The study is carried out within the theoretical framework of the hermeneutic approach according to which a whole is understood as the synthesis of the numerous parts it consists of and the multifaceted interrelations among them. The analysis of Vetinari’s name is thus conducted as a process of engaging in turn with the meaning of his given name, his family name as well as his official titles of address and nicknames, and looking into the linguistic, historical, and cultural associations they evoke which are correspondent to the nature of the literary character.
同义词的解释力:一个案例研究
本文旨在分析特里·普拉切特的《碟形世界》系列小说中最常见的文学人物之一哈夫洛克·维蒂纳里的名字所具有的象征意义。讨论的重点是他的名字和头衔所隐含的文学和历史联系,这有助于知情的读者理解叙事中人物行为的复杂性。这个名字的核心是互文的挪用和呼应,这源于作者多层次的百科知识,这是创造这个角色名字的基础。Havelock Vetinari是一个值得注意的例子,它说明了文学人物的虚构名字如何成为文学中意义建构的有力工具。该研究是在解释学方法的理论框架内进行的,根据该方法,一个整体被理解为它所组成的众多部分的综合,以及它们之间多方面的相互关系。因此,对维蒂纳里名字的分析是一个与他的名字、他的姓氏以及他的正式称谓和昵称的含义依次进行的过程,并研究他们所唤起的语言、历史和文化联系,这些联系与文学人物的本质相对应。
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