Literary Character

Author : Elizabeth Fowler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724169
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( 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.

Author : James Plath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538103761
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( 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 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies 100 of the most intriguing characters from some of the most well-known novels published over several centuries, from Hester Prynne and Harry Potter to Jay Gatsby and T.S. Garp. The book profiles these memorable characters and details their significance both at the time they were created and today.

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022665866X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( 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.

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247389
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabulous Monsters written by Alberto Manguel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel's favorite characters include Jim from Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye, Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet's mother, and Dr. Frankenstein's maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships. An intimate preface and Manguel's own "doodles" complete this delightful and magical book.

Author : A. J. Sobczak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893564384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyclopedia of Literary Characters written by A. J. Sobczak and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This 'edition combines the characters profiled in Cyclopedias of Literary Characters (1963) and Literary Characters II (1990). It also includes all characters that appeared in more recent works of Masterplots II published through 1995.' Publisher's Note. 'Entries are arranged alphabetically by the title of the work ... [They] begin with the book's title, foreign title if originally published in a language other than English, author's name with birth and death years, date of first publication, genre, locale, time of action, and plot type. Characters are arranged in order of importance; major characters have 100- to 150-word write-ups. Volume 5 contains three indexes: title, author, and character.'" Booklist.

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( 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:

Author : Blakey Vermeule
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421403102
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? written by Blakey Vermeule and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, people they know do not exist. Vermeule examines the ways in which readers’ experiences of literature are affected by the emotional attachments they form to fictional characters and how those experiences then influence their social relationships in real life. She focuses on a range of topics, from intimate articulations of sexual desire, gender identity, ambition, and rivalry to larger issues brought on by rapid historical and economic change. Vermeule discusses the phenomenon of emotional attachment to literary characters primarily in terms of 18th-century British fiction but also considers the postmodern work of Thomas Mann, J. M. Coetzee, Ian McEwan, and Chinua Achebe. From the perspective of cognitive science, Vermeule finds that caring about literary characters is not all that different from caring about other people, especially strangers. The tools used by literary authors to sharpen and focus reader interest tap into evolved neural mechanisms that trigger a caring response. This book contributes to the emerging field of evolutionary literary criticism. Vermeule draws upon recent research in cognitive science to understand the mental processes underlying human social interactions without sacrificing solid literary criticism. People interested in literary theory, in cognitive analyses of the arts, and in Darwinian approaches to human culture will find much to ponder in Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( 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. By the author of the"Curiosities of Literature." written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( 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 1822 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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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: