| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 391 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-382) and index. |
| Contents |
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 père Goriot and La comédie humaine -- Sophocles's Oedipus rex and the prehistory of the protagonist. |
| Summary |
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 narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Pere Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Characters and characteristics in literature. |
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European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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European fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
One versus the many |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Woloch, Alex, 1970- One vs. the many. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 0691113130 9780691113135 (DLC) 2003043333 (OCoLC)51586937 |
| ISBN |
9781400825752 (electronic book) |
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140082575X (electronic book) |
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9780691113135 (alkaline paper) |
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0691113130 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691113142 (paperback) |
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0691113149 (paperback) |
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