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Novel Characters: A Genealogy
Contributor(s): DiBattista, Maria (Author)
ISBN: 1405159510     ISBN-13: 9781405159517
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 809.392
LCCN: 2010016556
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 208 pages
 
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Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the "birth of the novel" in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day
  • An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character
  • Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel
  • Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time.
  • Examines a broad range of novels, cultures, and periods
  • Promotes discussion of how different cultures and times think about human identity, and how the concept of what a character is has changed over time