Open AccessThe “Goldilocks Principle” in S. Rushdie’s Novel “Quichotte” (2019): The Ratio of the Precedent Names, Culturally-Loaded and Exotic Vocabulary
Author(s) -
Marina A. Kuzina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
prepodavatelʹ xxi vek
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2073-9613
DOI - 10.31862/2073-9613-2020-1-363-371
Subject(s) - goldilocks principle , depiction , vocabulary , literature , order (exchange) , function (biology) , history , linguistics , aesthetics , art , philosophy , physics , finance , evolutionary biology , astrobiology , economics , biology
The twelfth novel (“Quichotte”) by the English-speaking writer of Indian origin Salman Rushdie was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2019. Like many other literary works by the Booker Prize winner of 1981, the analyzed novel testifies to the necessity of following the Goldilocks Principle when resorting to precedent names, culturally-loaded words and loanwords from non-European languages. In order to effectively convey his ideas to the target reader the author juggles with exotic loanwords (84 lexemes), culturally-loaded words (52 lexemes) and over 100 allusions to European and North American texts, persons and phenomena. The exotic loanwords and the culturally-loaded words contribute to the depiction of the place, time and characters; however, the intertextual elements perform an evaluation function and an aesthetic function.