A list of 60 words by papageno.
- rousseauianwas added by papageno and appears on just this list
- strindbergianwas added by papageno and appears on just this list
- euripideanwas added by papageno and appears on 2 lists
- uselessnessianwas added by papageno and appears on just this list
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- nabokovianwas added by papageno and appears on 3 lists
- pynchonianwas added by papageno and appears on 2 lists
- wellesianwas added by papageno and appears on 2 lists
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- hitchcockianwas added by papageno and appears on 6 lists
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- kubrickianwas added by papageno and appears on 3 lists
- aristotelianwas added by papageno and appears on 18 lists
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- miltonicwas added by papageno and appears on 3 lists
- nietzscheanwas added by papageno and appears on 9 lists
- orwellianwas added by papageno and appears on 28 lists
- faulknerianwas added by papageno and appears on 5 lists
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- marlovianwas added by papageno and appears on 2 lists
- shavianwas added by papageno and appears on 9 lists
- byronicwas added by papageno and appears on 17 lists
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- wagnerianwas added by papageno and appears on 11 lists
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- lucretianwas added by papageno and appears on 3 lists
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- shakespeareanwas added by papageno and appears on 8 lists
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- dickensianwas added by papageno and appears on 20 lists
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- joyceanwas added by papageno and appears on 6 lists
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yarb commented on the list lend-me-your-name
Beckettian? You can do this for almost any noted personage.
November 17, 2007
papageno commented on the list lend-me-your-name
Is that a dig at my list? : ) Nevertheless, I was looking for standard forms found in credible sources. You know, like websites.
Inspired by this nugget
November 17, 2007
yarb commented on the list lend-me-your-name
Eh? No - no dig intended by me!
November 17, 2007
papageno commented on the list lend-me-your-name
I thought you were implying it was a useless list because it can be done to any personage. I think marlovian is my favorite of the ones I've entered.
November 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the list lend-me-your-name
Oh, I think you forgot uselessnessian.
November 17, 2007
sionnach commented on the list lend-me-your-name
So why is it Byronic, but not Pynchonic? And shouldn't that be woolfish? :)
I've definitely seen runyonesque in print.
personally, I would have gone with Tolstovian.
Then there is the vexing case of Fabian, which could be an adjective related to a certain procrastinating Roman general, or a noun representing a certain former teen idol, for whom the relevant adjective would presumably have to be Fabianesque.
Just saying...
November 17, 2007
papageno commented on the list lend-me-your-name
I'm taking cues from the website I posted below and wikipedia's list of eponymous adjectives.
The article posted mentions a certain "Literary League's Language Label Committee," which apparently makes authoritative decisions on the forms used for the adjectives, but I can't seem to find any more info about it.
I do like the alternative adjectivizations of names though.
November 17, 2007
victoriapl commented on the list lend-me-your-name
I just listed 'phildickian' for Phil K. Dick, if you want to add it. Great list, by the way. I started one of my own before I found yours. I'm going to delete mine.
December 5, 2007
rolig commented on the list lend-me-your-name
Then there are the adjectives formed from first names, or which relate to people known primarily by their first name:
Mosaic (Mosaic law)
Pauline (the Pauline epistles)
Petrine (the Petrine era in Russia)
Johannine (the Johannine doctrine of the Logos)
Elizabethan
Victorian
Jacobean
and many more.
As for last name derivations:
Dostoevskian, Pushkinian, etc.
A curious one is: Hugolian, from Victor Hugo. Also, I like what happens to Foucault: Foucauldian.
December 5, 2007