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Colin Burrow: Literary Names, 22 November 2012
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature
by Alastair Fowler.
Oxford, 283 pp., £19.99, September 2012,978 0 19 959222 7 Show More
by Alastair Fowler.
Oxford, 283 pp., £19.99, September 2012,
“... of the New Comedy of Menander. But comic dramatists also often seem to have been attracted to what Anne Barton has called Cratylic names – those which appear to endorse the view of Plato’s Cratylus that there is an intrinsic relationship between name and nature. Aristophanes has Dicaeopolis (‘just city’) and Lysistrata (‘disbander of ... ”