02932nam 2200661Ia 450 991082307530332120240410113542.01-280-52314-X0-19-536487-21-4294-0093-5(CKB)1000000000404010(EBL)270920(OCoLC)191924802(SSID)ssj0000096976(PQKBManifestationID)11128050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096976(PQKBWorkID)10083086(PQKB)11529573(MiAaPQ)EBC270920(Au-PeEL)EBL270920(CaPaEBR)ebr10142044(CaONFJC)MIL52314(OCoLC)936848660(EXLCZ)99100000000040401019860108d1986 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrActs of naming the family plot in fiction /Michael Ragussis1st ed.New York Oxford University Press19861 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-504070-8 Includes bibliography: p.245-261 and index.Contents; Introduction: In the Name of the Child; 1 Clarissa, or the Name Lost; 2 Oliver Twist, or the Name Found; 3 Pierre, or the American Myth of the Name Transcended; 4 The Scarlet Letter; 5 Bleak House; 6 The Mill on the Floss; 7 Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 8 Lolita; 9 Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; ZMichael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Againstthe background of philosophic approaches to naming, Acts of Naming reveals the ways in which systems of naming are used to appropriate characters in novels as diverse as Clarissa, Fanny Hill, Oliver Twist, Pierre, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Remembrance of Things Past, and Lolita, and identifiesunnaming and rEnglish fictionHistory and criticismNames, Personal, in literatureFamilies in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticismPlots (Drama, novel, etc.)English fictionHistory and criticism.Names, Personal, in literature.Families in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)823/.009/24Ragussis Michael710295MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823075303321Acts of naming1339489UNINA