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Literary Character

Author : Elizabeth Fowler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724169
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Literary Character written by Elizabeth Fowler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models—such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator—originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture.Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading.Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes. 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.

Character

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022665866X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Character written by Amanda Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion force critics to embrace humanism and outmoded theories of the subject? Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.

The Literary Character Or The History of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Character Or The History of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary Character; Or, The History of Men of Genius

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book The Literary Character; Or, The History of Men of Genius written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary Character

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465555773
Total Pages : 1047 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Minor Characters Have Their Day

Author : Jeremy Rosen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542402
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Minor Characters Have Their Day written by Jeremy Rosen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters. Rosen traces the recent surge in "minor-character elaboration" to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab's wife, Huck Finn's father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency. Eventually, large-scale publishers capitalized on the genre as a way to appeal to educated audiences aware of the prestige of the classics and to draw in identity-based niche markets. Rosen's conclusion ties the understudied evolution of minor-character elaboration to the theory of literary character.

The Literary Character

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Character written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Out of Character

Author : Omri Moses
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791236
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Out of Character written by Omri Moses and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. "Character" is also used to refer to the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals to sustain core principles. When characters are inconsistent, they risk coming across as dangerous or immoral, not to mention unconvincing. But what is behind our culture's esteem for unwavering consistency? Out of Character examines literary characters who defy our culture's models of personal integrity. It argues that modernist writers Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot drew inspiration from vitalism as a way of reinventing the means of depicting people in fiction and poetry. Rather than regarding a rigid character as something that inoculates us against the shifting tides of circumstance, these writers insist on the ethical necessity of forming improvisational, dynamic social relationships. Charting the literary impact of William James, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and, in particular, Henri Bergson, this book contends that vitalist understandings of psychology, affect, and perception led to new situational and relational definitions of selfhood. As Moses demonstrates, the modernists stirred by these vital life lessons give us a sense of what psychic life looks like at its most intricate, complex, and unpredictable.

Miscellanies of Literature: Calamities of authors. The literary character

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Miscellanies of Literature: Calamities of authors. The literary character written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The literary character. Character of James the First

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book The literary character. Character of James the First written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Character in Literature

Author : Baruch Hochman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Character in Literature written by Baruch Hochman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

Author : James Plath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538103761
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Greatest Literary Characters written by James Plath and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction. Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are the greatest? More than just a topic to debate with friends, the greatest characters from fiction help readers comprehend history, culture, politics, and even their own place in today’s world. Despite our reliance on television, film, and technology, it is literature’s great characters that create and reinforce popular culture, informing us again and again about society and ourselves. In The 100 Greatest Literary Characters, James Plath, Gail Sinclair, and Kirk Curnutt identify the most significant figures in fiction published over the past several centuries. The characters profiled here represent a wide array of storytelling, and the authors explore the significance of the figures at the time they were created as well as their relevance today. Included in this volume are characters from literature produced around the world, such as Aladdin, James Bond, Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, Hercule Poirot, Don Quixote, Lisbeth Salander, Ebenezer Scrooge, Jean Valjean, and John Yossarian. Readerswill find their beloved literary figures, learn about forgotten gems, or discover deserving choices pulled from history’s dustbin. Providing insights into how literature shapes and molds culture via these fabricated figures, The 100 Greatest Literary Characters will appeal to literature lovers around the globe.

The literary character, illustrated by the history of men of genius. By the author of 'Curiosities of literature'.

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The literary character, illustrated by the history of men of genius. By the author of 'Curiosities of literature'. written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary Character ; Or the History of Men of Genius

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Character ; Or the History of Men of Genius written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary Character

Author : Disraeli Isaac 1766-1848
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314516708
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Character written by Disraeli Isaac 1766-1848 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Character

Author : Elizabeth Fowler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801441165
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Literary Character written by Elizabeth Fowler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading." "Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes."