Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Makolkin, Anna, 1943-

Title Name, hero, icon : semiotics of nationalism through heroic biography / by Anna Makolkin
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  302.2 Mak/Nhi  AVAILABLE
Description 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Approaches to semiotics ; 105
Approaches to semiotics ; 105
Contents Ch. 1. Introducing a name-sign. 1.1. Shevchenko as a Ukrainian sign. 1.2. Names, heroes and onomastic mythology. 1.3. Freudian onomastic mythology. 1.4. Names as graphic signs -- Ch. 2. Name and heroic description. 2.1. Heroes and heroic need. 2.2. Heroic biography, panegyric and heroes. 2.3. Heroic biography, concept of a national hero -- Ch. 3. Onomastic progression. 3.1. From a proper name to a name-symbol. 3.2. From a place name to a sacred symbol. 3.3. Onomastic statement. 3.4. Contradictory names of the hero. 3.5. Name-clusters and memory-markers. 3.6. Recognized name of hero -- Ch. 4. Hero, myth and name. 4.1. Name, nation and icon. 4.2. Name in the light of the myth about the "Other" 4.3. Name and new mythical identity. 4.4. Name and romantic myth. 4.5. Name and neoromantic myth -- Ch. 5. Name, desire and point of view. 5.1. Desiderative name and reference. 5.2. Name, focus and point of view. 5.3. Name and new heroic paradigm. 5.4. Name and national myth
5.5. Name and socialist myth -- Ch. 6. Name, death and temporal anxiety. 6.1. Name after death. 6.2. Name as an occasion for lament. 6.3. Poeticity of death. 6.4. Name and the other time. 6.5. Name as onomastic drill
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-255) and index
Subject Shevchenko, Taras, 1814-1861 -- Name.
Shevchenko, Taras, 1814-1861.
Biography as a literary form.
Heroes.
Names, Personal.
Nationalism.
Semiotics -- Social aspects.
Biography as a literary form.
Heroes.
Names, Personal.
Nationalism.
Semiotics -- Social aspects.
LC no. 91048252
ISBN 3110130122 (acid-free paper)