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Autore |
DiBattista Maria <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Novel characters : a genealogy / / Maria DiBattista |
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Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-77471-9 |
9786612774713 |
1-4443-2798-4 |
1-4443-2799-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Characters and characteristics in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Novel Characters: A Genealogy; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Novel Characters; I Wholes; II Fractions; III Compounds; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the "birth of the novel" in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing characterMakes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novelProvides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of ch |
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