M. D. Chulkov’s novel “The comely cook or a Dissolute Woman’s Progress”: Onomatopoeia and mythological implication

Marianna А Dudareva ,L B Katsuba

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185504005

Abstract

The meaning of proper names always attracted the scientists of different humanitarian spheres. The researchers of literary texts also paid much attention to the names of characters since special semantics is hidden in such names. In this article we deal with M. D. Chulkov’s novel written in the 18th century. Here the linguistic and cultural analysis of the names in the novel “The Comely Cook or A Dissolute Woman’s Progress” has been made. The parallels with the Russian folklore tradition help to highlight the mythopoeic implied sense of this work.

Highlights

Onomastics is a complicated and constantly developing science as it is closely connected with history, cultural science, philology, archeology and semiotics
In this work we mainly find the description of Martona's everyday life, that does not fully reveal the heroine’s inner world: “While creating the image of his heroine which is not a singlelined, Chulkov, being far from idealizing her, makes a reader to think that this not Martona's guilt but circumstances forced her to lead such way of life” [19]
“ Martona fails once again: Ahal leaves her and the heroine finds herself in the critical situation; she went to jail but after such severe trials she obtains new qualities since the prison symbolizes some kind of a barrier - a threshold

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Introduction

Onomastics is a complicated and constantly developing science as it is closely connected with history, cultural science, philology, archeology and semiotics The linguistic and cultural analysis of the names in the novel “The Comely Cook or A Dissolute Woman’s Progress” has been made. Chulkov gives the central characters of his novel mainly the foreign names and in the French manner.

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