Names in The Flight of the Heron
Jun. 15th, 2020 06:32 pmLanguage meta, part three!
One of my favourite things about stories with historical—specifically eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British—settings is all the beautiful subtlety of characterisation, relationship development and intimacy that can be conveyed through the level of formality of the names characters use for each other. I thought it'd be interesting to investigate this topic as applied to Flight of the Heron, a book which features a carefully-delineated relationship progression and quite a bit of emotional repression. Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
luzula for encouraging me to do so :)
( Another long post! )
One of my favourite things about stories with historical—specifically eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British—settings is all the beautiful subtlety of characterisation, relationship development and intimacy that can be conveyed through the level of formality of the names characters use for each other. I thought it'd be interesting to investigate this topic as applied to Flight of the Heron, a book which features a carefully-delineated relationship progression and quite a bit of emotional repression. Thanks to
luzula for encouraging me to do so :)( Another long post! )
