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UNINA9910455220903321 |
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Woloch Alex <1970-> |
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The one vs. the many [[electronic resource] ] : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel / / Alex Woloch |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2004 |
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1-282-15815-5 |
9786612158155 |
1-4008-2575-X |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (402 p.) |
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Characters and characteristics in literature |
European fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Realism in literature |
Electronic books. |
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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 (p. [337]-382) and index. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910464114903321 |
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Titolo |
Modifying adjuncts / / edited by Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen |
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Berlin : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , [2003] |
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©2003 |
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[Reprint 2013] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (663 pages) : illustrations |
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Interface Explorations [IE] ; ; 4 |
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Fabricius-HansenCathrine |
LangEwald <1942-> |
MaienbornClaudia |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjuncts |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts: an introduction / Lang, Ewald / Maienborn, Claudia / Fabricius-Hansen, |
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Cathrine -- Part A: The argument-adjunct distinction -- The dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in Categorial Grammar / Dowty, David -- Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity / Partee, Barbara H. / Borschev, Vladimir -- Heads, complements, adjuncts: Projection and saturation / Bierwisch, Manfred -- Part Β: Adjunct placement -- Syntactic conditions on adjunct classes / Frey, Werner -- "Manner" adverbs and the association theory: Some problems and solutions / Shaer, Benjamin -- Manner adverbs and information structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation / Eckardt, Regine -- Semantic features and the distribution of adverbs / Ernst, Thomas -- Clause-final left-adjunction / Rosengren, Inger -- Part C: Case studies on wieder/again -- Process, eventuality, and wieder,/again / Pittner, Karin -- Competition and interpretation: The German adverb wieder ('again') / Jäger, Gerhard / Blutner, Reinhard -- How are results represented and modified? Remarks on Jäger & Blutner's anti-decomposition / Stechow, Arnim Von -- Part D: Flexibility of eventuality-related modification -- Event arguments, adverb selection, and the Stative Adverb Gap / Katz, Graham -- Event-internal modifiers: Semantic underspecification and conceptual interpretation / Maienborn, Claudia -- Flexibility in adverbal modification: Reinterpretation as contextual enrichment / Dölling, Johannes -- Secondary predication and aspectual structure / Rothstein, Susan -- Real adjuncts in the Instrumental in Russian / Demjjanow, Assinja / Strigin, Anatoli -- German participle II constructions as adjuncts / Zimmermann, Ilse -- Subject index |
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Unlike the notion of "argument" that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion "adjunct" so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current approaches to the grammar and pragmatics of adjuncts. The contributions scrutinize i.a. the argument-adjunct distinction, specify conditions of adjunct placement, discuss compositionality issues, and propose new analyses of event-related modification. They are meant to shed new light on an area of linguistic structure that is deemed to be notoriously overlooked. |
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