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Acts of naming : the family plot in fiction / / Michael Ragussis



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Autore: Ragussis Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Acts of naming : the family plot in fiction / / Michael Ragussis Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1986
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.009/24
Soggetto topico: English fiction - History and criticism
Names, Personal, in literature
Families in literature
American fiction - History and criticism
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p.245-261 and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Z
Sommario/riassunto: Michael 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
Titolo autorizzato: Acts of naming  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-52314-X
0-19-536487-2
1-4294-0093-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823075303321
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