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200 10$aActs of naming$b[electronic resource] $ethe family plot in fiction /$fMichael Ragussis
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1986
215   $a1 online resource (279 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-504070-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliography: p.245-261 and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Z
330   $aMichael 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 r
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