@ARTICLE{Rejter_Artur_Naming_2022,
 author={Rejter, Artur},
 number={No 3 (372)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={409-427},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2022},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={This article deals with the function of proper names in Olga Tokarczuk's novel Anna In w grobowcach świata [ Anna In in the Tombs of the World] and the short story collection Opowiadania bizarne [ Bizarre Stories]. In either case we are confronted with a stunning diversity of imaginary worlds described with erudite care and, by implication, a high level of strategic control. While drawing on a vast pool of well attested names from both Western cultural history and non-European mythologies, she also creates apellatives based on attributes highlighted in the storytelling (the stories themselves are often the product of her magical imagination). Invented or real, all proper names in Tokarczuk's narratives are handled in such a way as to display to the full their semantic, pragmatic and aesthetic qualities. Also, it seems, their placement in the text and their effect on the reader's reactions during the process of reading are carefully planned. what this article tries to demonstrate is that in Tokarczuk's art of fiction the creative transformation of proper names, their reinterpretation and contextualization functions as a complement to the imaginary worlds, rooted in bizarre, meta/genre creativity.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={Naming strategies and the worlds of Olga Tokarczuk's fiction},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125629/PDF/2022-03-RL-04.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2022.140976},
 keywords={Polish contemporary literature, literary onomastics, proper names, weird fiction, Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962)},
}