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Acts of Naming : the Family Plot in Fiction.
Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Againstthe backg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: In the Name of the Child; PART ONE. THE NAMING PLOTS OF FICTION; 1 Clarissa, or the Name Lost; 2 Oliver Twist, or the Name Found; 3 Pierre, or the American Myth of the Name Transcended; PART TWO. FICTION AND FAMILY DISCOURSE; 4 The Scarlet Letter; The guilty name
- On the border in fiction; 5 Bleak House; Kindred mystery
- No one and Every one in fiction; 6 The Mill on the Floss; The education of father and son; Living twice over in fiction; 7 Tess of the d'Urbervilles; In the name of the Father
- In the name of our love
- Coda: Confession in fictionPART THREE. FICTION AND THE TRADITIONS OF NAMING; 8 Lolita; The science of classification; Etymology; Allegory, meta-allegory, and parody; The ""science of pleasure"" in Fanny Hill; Proust and the erotics of naming; 9 Epilogue; Naming as ordinary magic; The novel as naming plot; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.