[PW] Re: eponymous heroines

[Askapart]

Eponymous: adjective used in two ways. Of a person, it means "giving his or her name to something". Of a thing, it means "named after a particular person". (Source: 1993 ed. of the Shorter OED)
   
  An eponymous heroine is therefore a character who gives her name to the work in which she appears.
   
  The definition above seems to imply that "Queen of the Damned" is an eponymous title but the book doesn't have an eponymous heroine. Hmm...  :-)
   
  Bridget

Bristol Library <bplref at gmail.com> wrote:
  I think works named for the heroine: Antigone or Anna Karenina or Daisy
Miller or Madame Bovary, for instance. I don't know if Rice's Queen of the
Damned would qualify or not, as it uses the title instead of name . . . .

On 8/16/06, Brian Whatcott wrote:
>
> At 03:26 AM 8/16/2006,
> tsviya, you wrote:
>
> >Here is a question to awaken you all from the summer doldrums:
> >One of our instructors has asked for a list of eponymous heroines in
> Western
> >literature, everything from ancient Greece and Rome to modern day - as
> many
> >as we can locate.
>
> ///
>
> >Tsviya Polani
>
>
> I am in trouble with parsing Tsviya's ask. For me, eponymous means
> essentially, "named for the person in question"
>
> So a list of heroines named for themselves doesn't take me where
> Tsviya would have me go.
>
>
>
> Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
>
>
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