The One vs. the Many : Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel /
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Iliad's two wars
- Characterization and distribution
- Narrative asymmetry in Pride and prejudice
- Making more of minor characters
- Partings welded together: the character-system in Great Expectations
- A qui la place?: characterization and competition in Le pere Goriot and La comedie humaine
- Sophocles's Oedipus rex and the prehistory of the protagonist.