Antroponyma v Magorových labutích písních

• Authors: Robert Kolár

Title variants

EN

Anthroponyms in Magor’s swan songs

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with personal names and their functions in the poetry collection Magorovy labutí písně (1985) written by Ivan Martin Jirous (1944–2011). According to underground poetics, Jirous uses real names. The nature of naming depends on whether the person is male (one-word and multi-word naming) or female (strictly one-word naming by first name); whether the person is close to the author (usually naming by the first name or a combination of a hypocorism and the last name) or historical figure (by the last name or a combination of the official first name and the last name). In the case of names of historical figures, the dominant function is associative, in the case of names of persons close to the author the functions are phatic (a distant contact with the named person), honorific (honouring the named persons) and magic (protection of named persons). One of the key features of Magorovy labutí písně is that names are often in rhyme position – rhyming names are a sign of virtuosity but at the same time of humorous poetry (epigram, satire).

Keywords

CS

Ivan M. Jirous; česká poezie – 20. století; literární underground; literární onomastika; antroponyma; vězeňská literatura

EN

Ivan M. Jirous; Czech poetry - 20th Century; literary underground; literary onomastics; anthroponyms; prison poetry

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 233-239
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Robert Kolár

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic