In Praise Of The Minor Character

Author : Grace Pregent
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476650517

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In Praise of the Minor Character by Grace Pregent Pdf

Minor characters are everywhere in novels. They linger with readers and invite us into the untold aspects of their lives. They fill a text's landscape, bringing depth to its ecosystem, and encourage us to shift our thoughts from textual centers to margins and even to consider the minor elements of our own experiences. Minor characters challenge us to hold oppositional perspectives, rethink interdependencies, and reimagine textual and lived relationships. In many ways, we identify with minor characters, and yet we lack a nuanced way of understanding them. This work is about minor characters and the qualities of "minorness" in Victorian novels. It offers casual readers and scholars alike a method of reading and rereading for minor characters that extends across genres.

Author : Francis Bourdillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094522

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Lesser lights: or, Some of the minor characters of Scripture by Francis Bourdillon Pdf

Author : Alex Woloch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400825752

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The One vs. the Many by Alex Woloch Pdf

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.

Author : Jeremy Rosen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231542401

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Minor Characters Have Their Day by Jeremy Rosen Pdf

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.

Author : William Brock (Baptist Minister, the Younger.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000550356

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Minor Characters of the New Testament by William Brock (Baptist Minister, the Younger.) Pdf

Author : Joyce Johnson
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0413775593

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Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson Pdf

Johnson's book is a personal memoir and a summation of the times, a story of adolescent rebellion and a desire to choose a different life. She shows how the Beat women, in deciding to break the rules and leave home as unmarried young women in the 1950s, discovered the risks and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.

Author : David Galef
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271040103

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The Supporting Cast by David Galef Pdf

For every Hamlet, there is a supporting cast; for every Mrs. Dalloway, an entire realm of subordinate portraits. Yet if literary criticism cares at all about significant detail, emergent patterns, and the subtleties in narrative, flat and minor characters are crucial to an understanding of the fictional process itself. Beginning with E. M. Forster's landmark study of flat and round characters, this book is both a critical and writerly examination of the species: Why are certain minor characters so salient in readers' minds, and why are flat characters often so comic? Is a name enough to create a character, and if so, what is the vanishing point of characterization? The walking allegory, the narrator, the disrupter, the doppelg&änger&—how are they used, and to what effect? The Supporting Cast first explores the theoretical limits of character, from structuralist taxonomies to reader-response concerns, with examples culled from a wide range of literature. The author then applies these concepts, in chapters of sustained analysis, to works of Conrad, Forster, and Woolf. The work also provides comments on flat and minor characters in other media and a full-scale character index of Woolf's Jacob's Room.

Author : Richard McCombs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666936063

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Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love by Richard McCombs Pdf

Since art is essential to the love of one’s neighbor as oneself and to love’s chief goal of building up one another, we cannot understand love without also understanding its art. Observing that praise is ubiquitous in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings, Richard McCombs interprets Kierkegaard’s Works of Love as a eulogy of love’s arts of forgiveness, peace-making, and building up one’s neighbor in maturity and charity. Kierkegaard stresses love's ability to achieve results, calling love irresistible and almost magical in overcoming obstacles to its purposes; living the life of faith and love involves skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual’s life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard’s ideas about the art of love reveal limits or exceptions to his individualism and to his anti-consequentialism in ethics. Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love explores Kierkegaard’s distinct praises of love through texts like Works of Love, The Brothers Karamazov, and Middlemarch to illustrate, complement, and sometimes correct Kierkegaard’s profound account of love’s art and wisdom, suggesting ways that the art of praise bears on other questions in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.

Author : G. MACCULLOCH (of Edinburgh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019329663

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Bible Biographies; or, sketches of some of the minor Scripture characters by G. MACCULLOCH (of Edinburgh.) Pdf

Author : Heather Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780143198666

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The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith Pdf

Little Miss Sunshine meets Room in this quirky, heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and discovery. It's Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little contact with the outside world. What she's learned about life comes from the random books and old VHS tapes that she finds in the boxes and bags her mother brings home. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland. Fortunately, the first person she meets is Busker Boy, a street musician who senses her naivety and takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters: Chef, a hotel dishwasher with culinary dreams; Cher, a drag queen with a tragic past; Big Eyes, a Catholic school girl desperately trying to reinvent herself; and The Landlord, a man who Bun is told to avoid at all cost. Through her experiences with her new roommates, and their sometimes tragic revelations, Bun learns that the world extends beyond the walls of her mother's house and discovers the joy of being part of a new family -- a family of friends who care.

Author : Katrina Beth Olds
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300185225

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Forging the Past by Katrina Beth Olds Pdf

Examines how four volumes of invented "truths" about Sp[anish sacred histiory radically transformed the religious landscape in Counter-Reformation Spain. Explores the history, author, and legacy of the Cronicones, alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 and not definitively exposed as forgeries until centuries later.

Author : Lee Sheldon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000782868

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Character Development and Storytelling for Games by Lee Sheldon Pdf

This is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from the first two books up to date and tackles the new challenges of today. Professional game writer and designer Lee Sheldon combines his experience and expertise in this updated edition. New examples, new game types, and new challenges throughout the text highlight the fundamentals of character writing and storytelling. But this book is not just a box of techniques for writers of video games. It is an exploration of the roots of character development and storytelling that readers can trace from Homer to Chaucer to Cervantes to Dickens and even Mozart. Many contemporary writers also contribute insights from books, plays, television, films, and, yes, games. Sheldon and his contributors emphasize the importance of creative instinct and listening to the inner voice that guides successful game writers and designers. Join him on his quest to instruct, inform, and maybe even inspire your next great game.

Author : Joshua Gooch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137525512

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The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy by Joshua Gooch Pdf

This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.

Author : Frederick Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030785999

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Obscure Characters and Minor Lights of Scripture by Frederick Hastings Pdf

Author : Rainbow Rowell
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250031211

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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Pdf

#1 New York Times Best Seller! "Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review Bono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, we're 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. A New York Times Best Seller! A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013 A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013 An NPR Best Book of 2013