In reading a review for Sin Nombre a movie made in 2009 regarding a group of people making the move into the US from Honduras on the top of a train, the reviewer mentioned the next project for the producer of this movie was going to be Jane Eyre.
The reference here is that the movie will be named after the character. It is therefore an eponymous work.
officially:
eponymous
adj [ɪˈpɒnɪməs]
adj
1. (of a person) being the person after whom a literary work, film, etc., is named the eponymous heroine in the film of Jane Eyre
2. (of a literary work, film, etc.) named after its central character or creator The Stooges' eponymous debut album
eponymously adv
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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