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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

Novel Characters: A Genealogy

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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... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 17/09/2010
    ISBN13: 9781405159517, 978-1405159517
    ISBN10: 1405159510

    Number of Pages: 208

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    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

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