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Literary Character : The Human Figure in Early English Writing /

"According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fowler, Elizabeth, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Arguments of Person
  • Social Persons and Cognition
  • The Four Parts of the Argument
  • Social Persons among the Disciplines
  • Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment
  • Psyche's Priests: Chaucer's Project and the Pardoner's Intention
  • The Pardoner's Intentions in the History of the Church
  • Sexual Figuration and the Habitus
  • Habitual Action and the Person
  • Reading, Writing, and Habituation
  • Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in Piers Plowman
  • Sexual Agency: Contract, Coverture, and Legal Person
  • The Case of Holi Chirche
  • Economic Agency: Just Price and Mede Mesurelees
  • Political Agency: Constitutional Monarchy and the Marriage of Males
  • The Temporality of Social Persons: Value in "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge"
  • Seeing through Character
  • The Alewife and the Economic Order
  • Gender and Money
  • Social Persons and the Topos of the Market
  • Literary and Other Social Forms in Time
  • Architectonic Person and the Grounds of the Polity in The Faerie Queene
  • Persons and the Polity
  • Proteus' House and the Grounds of the English Constitution
  • The Criterion of Fit and the Creation of Persons: Jurisprudence in Tudor Ireland
  • Architectonic Character and Dominion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
  • Afterword: The Obligations of Persons.