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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140805603321

Autore

DiBattista Maria <1947->

Titolo

Novel characters : a genealogy / / Maria DiBattista

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-77471-9

9786612774713

1-4443-2798-4

1-4443-2799-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

809.3927

Soggetti

Characters and characteristics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Novel Characters: A Genealogy; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Novel Characters; I Wholes; II Fractions; III Compounds; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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