okay, without looking it up...

[clauclauclaudia]

Does this usage of eponymous seem okay to you or not? Why?

[blah blah Chekhov on film] "Based on his eponymous 1891 novella, THE DUEL gives life to a classic Chekhovian tale...."

All right. Look it up if you want to, but let me know if you do.

I'm screening comments for a bit to get independent answers, but I'll unscreen them soonish. [Edit: slow unscreening now complete.]

Comments

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

This is probably going to result in me embarrassing myself, but isn't 'eponymous' mean something along the name of 'bearing the same name'?

Like 'the film JFK focuses not on its eponymous President, but on the conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting' Or 'Russell Crowe plays the eponymous hero in Robin Hood/Gladiator'.

So, no the sentence wouldn't make sense - the film would have to be called Chekov, wouldn't it, for it to make sense?

I was tempted to look it up and check but haven't. I might once I've submitted this though!

almost!

[clauclauclaudia]

I think I would go with "titular" in the Crowe sentence. Eponymous means named for a specific person, and I'm not sure Gladiator qualifies. It certainly comes miles closer than The Duel, though.