The functioning of precedent names from source domain “Literature” in Richard Brautigan’s “Trout Fishing in America”
- DOI
- 10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-4-4
- Pages
- 39-50
Abstract
The main functions realized by precedent names in the novel Trout Fishing in America by the American postmodern writer Richard Brautigan are identified. The study employed methods of contextual and intertextual analysis, as well as the method of exhaustive sampling. The identified sample of literary precedent names (61 units) includes precedent biblionyms (titles of literary works), anchistonyms (authors’ surnames), and anthropoetonyms (names of characters). The following key functions of precedent names in Brautigan’s novel are established: ludic (realization of comic effect), poetic (enhancement of the artistic significance of the text and creation of tropic relations), characterizing (description of the characters’ personalities), referential (recreation of the cultural-historical context of the era), and text-forming (formation of the plot framework and structuring of intratextual connections). It is shown that precedent names in the text of the work have a multifunctional character, with the ludic function serving as the hyperfunction.