NDLI: Literary Onomastics in Graciliano Ramos : The Names of Characters in Vidas Secas and São Bernardo

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Literary Onomastics in Graciliano Ramos : The Names of Characters in Vidas Secas and São Bernardo

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Author	Ramos, G. Secas, Vidas Vidas, Personagens De Bernardo, Secas E De São Eckert, Kleber Röhrig, Maiquel
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	This paper's main theme focuses on an interdisciplinary study connecting Onomastics (science that studies proper names) and Brazilian Literature, more specifically Graciliano Ramos' prose, written during the second phase of Brazilian Modernism. The aim is to conduct an etymological and symbolic analysis of the names of the main characters of the novels Vidas Secas and São Bernardo in order to verify if there is any relationship between the meaning of a proper name and the behavior or physical features of the corresponding characters. For this purpose, basic concepts of anthroponomy, the branch of Onomastics responsible for the study of people's proper names, are discussed, together with issues related to Literary Onomastics, the field dedicated to the analysis of characters' names in literary works. The characteristics of the second phase of Modernism, better known as Romance de 30, as well as a synthesis of the plot of each of the novels, are presented. The etymological analysis of characters' names, stemming from dictionaries of names and surnames, made it possible to conclude that there is, in most cases, a close relationship between the meaning of the names and the characteristics of the characters. This leads us to believe that the author's choice of names was not fortuitous, but indeed, etymologically and symbolically motivated.
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Language	English
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