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This issue of Novel proposes a new type of novelistic hero: the anagonist. Unlike the protagonist, the anagonist does not act; or if she does, her action is inconsequential to the work. The concept itself, however, is problematic, for the figure of the anagonist is averse to typology, such that its decisive identification in any particular work is almost impossible. More than a contribution to narrative categories therefore, the appearance of the anagonist as a critical term is a reconceptualization and rethinking of the nature and role of action in the novel form.

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9781478014812, 978-1478014812
      ISBN10: 1478014814
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      Book Synopsis
      This issue of Novel proposes a new type of novelistic hero: the anagonist. Unlike the protagonist, the anagonist does not act; or if she does, her action is inconsequential to the work. The concept itself, however, is problematic, for the figure of the anagonist is averse to typology, such that its decisive identification in any particular work is almost impossible. More than a contribution to narrative categories therefore, the appearance of the anagonist as a critical term is a reconceptualization and rethinking of the nature and role of action in the novel form.

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