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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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