Poetonyms in the Mystical Story of A.K. Tolstoy “The Family of the Ghoul”
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2022-1-91-98
Abstract
Aim. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the features of the use of the name by A.K. Tolstoy in early fiction through a systematic approach.
Methodology. The paper analyzes the system of proper names in A. K. Tolstoy’s story “The Family of the Ghoul”. The research uses the historical and literary method, observation, continuous sampling, contextual analysis, classification, and statistical method.
Results. The specificity of Tolstoy’s name usage at the levels of paradigmatics and syntagmatics is revealed.
Research implications. The results of the study enrich the idea of the features of the semantic and stylistic system and the individual author’s word usage by A.K. Tolstoy. The obtained results can be also used in university courses “History of the Russian literature of the XIX century” and “Literary local history”, as well as in special courses on onomastics of a literary text and on the Russian literature of the XIX century, dedicated to the work of A.K. Tolstoy.
About the Author
S. M. Pronchenko
Branch of Ivan Petrovsky Bryansk State University in Novozybkov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey M. Pronchenko – Сand. Sci . (Philology), Assoc. Prof ., Department of Social, Economic and Humanitarian Disciplines, Branch of Ivan Petrovsky Bryansk State University in Novozybkov.
Sovetskaya, Novozybkov ul. 243020, Bryansk Region.
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