On the use of women's names in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels (original) (raw)
2006, I Nomi nel tempo e nello spazio. Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Onomastiche. Pisa.
This paper deals with the use of women's names in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Fleming's main naming strategy was to choose names that tell us something about the characters, names that correspond to their personalities, their occupations or the roles they play in the stories. This is often achieved by providing them with allusive names that hint at several meanings, using polysemy, etymology, or lexical or even phonological associations. Many of these names are given an explanation in the novels, but underneath this explanation there are always others. Special attention has been paid to the cases where I believe the heroines do not have allusive names. I suggest that this has to do with the fact that these women are the ones with the most complex and real characters, and real characters must have real names.
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