Names as intertextual linguistic items in the Esti Kornél short stories
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.3.288Keywords:
Esti Kornél, intertextuality, associations, contexts, semantic structureAbstract
The paper discusses intertextual possibilities of reading based on the title hero’s name in Esti Kornél texts written by Dezső Kosztolányi, an outstanding writer of modern Hungarian literature in general and of the first generation of the journal Nyugat in particular. This relationship between he text and the receiver can be described as a set of reflected or unwitting associations. Within the oeuvre of Kosztolányi, these texts are of debatable genres and loosely related to one another, mainly in terms of proper names and some recurrent themes rather than linearity and explicitness, thereby emphasising the fictitiousness of the stories. The name Esti Kornél serves as a kind of associative link across these texts, as well as in contemporary texts of fiction that contain it; it has an intertextual role by evoking earlier contexts in which the name occurred and the properties that were associated with it in earlier texts.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Gréta Páji
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Magyar Nyelv is a Diamond Open Access periodical. Documents can be freely downloaded and duplicated in an electronic format, and can be used unchanged and with due reference to the original source. Such use must not serve commercial purposes. In the case of any form of dissemination and use, Hungarian Copyright Act LXXVI/1999 and related laws are to be observed. The electronic version of the journal is subject to the regulations of CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives).
The journal permits its authors, at no cost and without any temporal limitation, to make pre-print copies of their manuscripts publicly available via email or in their own homepage or that of their institution, or in either closed or free-for-all repositories of their institutions/universities, or other non-profit websites, in the form accepted by the journal editor for publication and even containing amendments on the basis of reviewers’ comments. When the authors publicize their papers in this manner, they have to warn their readers that the manuscript at hand is not the final published version of the work. Once the paper has been published in a printed or online form, the authors are allowed (and advised) to use that (post-print) version for the above purposes. In that case, they have to indicate the exact location and other data of the journal publication. The authors retain the copyright of their papers; however, in the case of an occasional secondary publication, the bibliographical data of the first publication have to be included.
