Open AccessEliot's Naming of Cats
Author(s) -
Anne H. Lambert
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
names
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1756-2279
pISSN - 0027-7738
DOI - 10.1179/nam.1990.38.1-2.39
Subject(s) - nonsense , meaning (existential) , linguistics , cats , sound (geography) , literature , communication , art , philosophy , history , psychology , epistemology , computer science , biology , acoustics , biochemistry , physics , gene , embedded system
Most of the names of the cat characters in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats are of the “peculiar, and more dignified” type, rather than everyday names, and depend either on sound or on meaning, occasionally on both. For nonsense names, Eliot was influenced by Edward Lear.