The One vs. the Many : : Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel / / Alex Woloch.
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...
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Woloch, Alex, author. The One vs. the Many : Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel / Alex Woloch. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2004 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. The Iliad's Two Wars -- Introduction. Characterization and Distribution -- Chapter One. Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice -- Chapter Two. Making More of Minor Characters -- Chapter Three. Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations -- Chapter Four. A qui la place?: Characterization and Competition in Le Pére Goriot and La Comédie humaine -- Afterword. Sophocles' Oedipus and the Prehistory of the Protagonist -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Characters and characteristics in literature. European fiction 19th century History and criticism. Realism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691113142 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825752 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400825752.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. The Iliad's Two Wars -- Introduction. Characterization and Distribution -- Chapter One. Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice -- Chapter Two. Making More of Minor Characters -- Chapter Three. Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations -- Chapter Four. A qui la place?: Characterization and Competition in Le Pére Goriot and La Comédie humaine -- Afterword. Sophocles' Oedipus and the Prehistory of the Protagonist -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. The Iliad's Two Wars -- Introduction. Characterization and Distribution -- Chapter One. Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice -- Chapter Two. Making More of Minor Characters -- Chapter Three. Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations -- Chapter Four. A qui la place?: Characterization and Competition in Le Pére Goriot and La Comédie humaine -- Afterword. Sophocles' Oedipus and the Prehistory of the Protagonist -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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