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Literary Character
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Pages: 278
Authors: Elizabeth Fowler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabe
Character
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Amanda Anderson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-23 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest.
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Blakey Vermeule
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Blakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, people they know do not exist. Vermeule examines the ways in which rea
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: A. J. Sobczak
Categories: Characters and characteristics in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

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"This 'edition combines the characters profiled in Cyclopedias of Literary Characters (1963) and Literary Characters II (1990). It also includes all characters
The 100 Greatest Literary Characters
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: James Plath
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-15 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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This book identifies 100 of the most intriguing characters from some of the most well-known novels published over several centuries, from Hester Prynne and Harr