The Doctor and the Fan on common ground

[thnidu]

Onomaturgy vs. Onomastics: An Introduction to the Namecraft of Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Robinson, Christopher
Source: Names: A Journal of Onomastics, Volume 59, Number 3, September 2011, pp. 129-138(10)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract: Where literary onomastics focuses on names in the context of a narrative, literary onomaturgy focuses on

Comments

[wcg]

It is a measure of how much that book influenced me that I can read Estraven and still think Therem Harth Rem Ir Estraven. One of the great characters of speculative literature.

[thnidu]

I refuse to refer to the obvious in the author's name -- to him, at least. It's a long-standing policy of mine, possibly going back to whenever I discovered that my first name is an Engish common noun. oh hell nap time