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Alliteration and Echoing in Harry Potter Names: Reading At A Level
Beyond Tit-for-Tat Allegory via www.hogwartsprofessor.com on 7/3/10
Likely Literary Antecedents: Nabokov, Hugo, and Dickens
Having established that Ms. Rowling enjoys names of a certain
construction — alliterative, with paired letters, and having internal
resonances or echoes — before I get to why she chooses to do this and
what it may mean, I want to make a short diversion to note that she
isn’t the first author to do this. I think the sort of names she
prefers to give her characters are reminiscent of at least three
authors that she cares for: Nabokov, Hugo, and Dickens.
Ms. Rowling has said more than once that her three favorite writers are
Jane Austen, Colette, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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Alliteration and Echoing in Harry Potter Names: Reading At A Level
Beyond Tit-for-Tat Allegory via www.hogwartsprofessor.com on 7/3/10
Likely Literary Antecedents: Nabokov, Hugo, and Dickens
Having established that Ms. Rowling enjoys names of a certain
construction — alliterative, with paired letters, and having internal
resonances or echoes — before I get to why she chooses to do this and
what it may mean, I want to make a short diversion to note that she
isn’t the first author to do this. I think the sort of names she
prefers to give her characters are reminiscent of at least three
authors that she cares for: Nabokov, Hugo, and Dickens.
Ms. Rowling has said more than once that her three favorite writers are
Jane Austen, Colette, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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