Title The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel / Alex Woloch.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 391 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-382) and index.
Contents	The Iliad's two wars -- Characterization and distribution -- Narrative asymmetry in Pride and prejudice -- Making more of minor characters -- Partings welded together: the character-system in Great expectations -- A qui la place?: characterization and competition in Le père Goriot and La comédie humaine -- Sophocles's Oedipus rex and the prehistory of the protagonist.
Summary	Does 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 Pere Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Characters and characteristics in literature.
	European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Realism in literature.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	Personages.
	Romans.
	Electronic books.
	Characters and characteristics in literature. (OCoLC)fst00852295
	European fiction. (OCoLC)fst00916731
	Realism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01091237
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Title	One versus the many
Other Form:	Print version: Woloch, Alex, 1970- One vs. the many. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 0691113130 9780691113135 (DLC) 2003043333 (OCoLC)51586937
ISBN	9781400825752 (electronic bk.)
	140082575X (electronic bk.)

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