Meanings
comparative more orthonymous · superlative most orthonymous
- Of, pertaining to, or being an orthonym.
I find his orthonymous works even more interesting than his pseudonymous works.
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The story goes that orthonymous Pessoa became a poet after encountering Caeiro and hearing him recite from The Keeper of Sheep.
2019, Rehan P. Visser, “Fernando Pessoa’s Art of Living: Ironic Multiples, Multiple Ironies”, in The Philosophical Forum, volume 50, number 4, →DOI, page 441Text fragments travel, cruise, or circulate among the three 1960s novels ignoring the boundaries between published and unpublished works, between pseudonymous and orthonymous authorship, and between genres.
2020, Benedikt Wolf, “Cruising, Travelling, Marching toward the Center: The Spatial Parameters of Male Homosexuality in Felix Rexhausen’s Novels of the 1960s”, in Monatshefte, volume 112, number 2, pages 266-267Ironically, as he appeared in the British marketplace with his first orthonymous publication, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (1806), the reprinting of its contents in the United States began to reflect the strategic manipulations and disavowals that enriched the authorial status of his first two books.
2021, Justin Tonra, Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore, Routledge, →ISBN, page 8Synonyms: autonymous · Antonyms: pseudonymous
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
By surface analysis, orthonym + -ous.
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