SHAKSPER 1993: Re: Literary Device

From: Hardy M. Cook (hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu)
Date: 11/30/93


Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 867.  Tuesday, 30 November 1993.
 
(1)     From:   Ed Pechter <PECHTER@Vax2.Concordia.CA>
        Date:   Monday, 29 Nov 1993 10:12:13 -0500 (EST)
        Subj:   Re: SHK 4.0859  Re: Literary Device
 
(2)     From:   William Godshalk <GODSHAWL@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU>
        Date:   Monday, 29 Nov 1993 22:12:25 -0500 (EST)
        Subj:   Re: SHK 4.0852  Q: Literary Device
 
 
(1)----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From:           Ed Pechter <PECHTER@Vax2.Concordia.CA>
Date:           Monday, 29 Nov 1993 10:12:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 4.0859  Re: Literary Device
Comment:        Re: SHK 4.0859  Re: Literary Device
 
Maybe Ann Barton in *The Names of Comedy* provides rhetorical names for
appropriate character names.
 
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From:           William Godshalk <GODSHAWL@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU>
Date:           Monday, 29 Nov 1993 22:12:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 4.0852  Q: Literary Device
Comment:        Re: SHK 4.0852  Q: Literary Device
 
Michael,
 
George Lakey (of Philadelphia fame) told me years ago that the term was
charactonym. He said that he got the word from a professor at West Chester
College (PA).
 
Yours, Bill Godshalk



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