LEADER 04412nam 2200733 a 450 001 996248287503316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15815-5 010 $a9786612158155 010 $a1-4008-2575-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825752 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788485 035 $a(EBL)457943 035 $a(OCoLC)436059948 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000215000 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202580 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215000 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167488 035 $a(PQKB)11079032 035 $a(OCoLC)899266235 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36284 035 $a(DE-B1597)446342 035 $a(OCoLC)979631679 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457943 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312628 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457943 035 $a(dli)HEB32273 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000077 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788485 100 $a20030127d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe one vs. the many $eminor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel /$fAlex Woloch 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (402 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11313-0 311 $a0-691-11314-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-382) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue. The Iliad's Two Wars -- $tIntroduction. Characterization and Distribution -- $tChapter One. Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice -- $tChapter Two. Making More of Minor Characters -- $tChapter Three. Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations -- $tChapter Four. A qui la place?: Characterization and Competition in Le Pére Goriot and La Comédie humaine -- $tAfterword. Sophocles' Oedipus and the Prehistory of the Protagonist -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aDoes 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. 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. 517 3 $aOne versus the many 517 3 $aMinor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 606 $aEuropean fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRealism in literature 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 0$aEuropean fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 676 $a809.3/927 700 $aWoloch$b Alex$f1970-$0325187 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248287503316 996 $aThe one vs. the many$92371565 997 $aUNISA