Author: Cathy Cash SpellmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781850572879
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
So Many Partings
Author: Cathy Cash SpellmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781850572879
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
So Many Partings
Author: Cathy Cash SpellmanPublisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006169390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
The One Vs. the Many
Author: Alex WolochPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691113135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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 Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The "character-space," as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation. Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.
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Author: Charles Dickens
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