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The one vs. the many: minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
Alex Woloch
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Frontmatter
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PROLOGUE The Iliad's Two Wars (page 1)
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The Proem (page 1)
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When Achilles Disappears: A Reading of Book 2 (page 3)
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The Death of Lykaon (page 8)
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INTRODUCTION Characterization and Distribution (page 12)
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Character-Space: Between Person and Form (page 12)
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Characterization and the Antinomies of Theory (page 14)
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"They Too Should Have a Case" (page 21)
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Two Kinds of Minorness (page 24)
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Function and Alienation: The Labor Theory of Character (page 26)
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Realism, Democracy, and Inequality (page 30)
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Austen, Dickens, Balzac: Character-Space in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (page 32)
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The Minor Character: Between Story and Discourse (page 37)
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CHAPTER ONE Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice (page 43)
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Minor Character in a Narrative Structure (page 43)
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The Double Meaning of Character (page 50)
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The One vs. the Many (page 56)
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Asymmetry: From Discourse to Story (page 62)
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Characterizing Minorness 1: Compression (page 68)
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The Space of the Protagonist 1: Elizabeth's Consciousness (page 77)
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Characterizing Minorness 2: Externality (page 82)
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Helpers: Charlott Lucas and the Actantial Theory (page 88)
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The Space of the Protagonist 2: Elizabeth's Self-Consciousness (page 97)
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Wickham: "How He Lived I Know Not" (page 103)
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Minor Minor Characters: Representing Multiplicity (page 116)
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CHAPTER TWO Making More of Minor Characters (page 125)
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Distorted Characters and the Weak Protagonist (page 125)
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Between Jingle and Joe: Asymmetry and Misalignment in The Pickwick Papers (page 133)
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Seeing into Sight: Mr. Elton and Uriah Heep (page 143)
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Partial Visibility and Incomplete Vision: The Appearance of Minor Characters (page 149)
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Repetition and Eccentricity: Minor Characters and the Division of Labor (page 155)
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"Monotonous Emphasis": Minorness and Three Kinds of Repetition (page 167)
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CHAPTER THREE Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations (page 177)
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Between Two Roaring Worlds: Exteriority and Characterization (page 177)
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The Structure of Childhood Experience (page 188)
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Interpreting the Character-System: Signification, Position, Structure (page 194)
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Metaphor, Metonymy, and Characterization (page 198)
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Getting to London (page 207)
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Three Narrative Workers and the Dispersion of Labor in Great Expectations (page 213)
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The Double: A Narrative Condition? (page 238)
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CHAPTER FOUR A qui la place?: Characterization and Competition in Le Père Goriot and La Comédie humaine (page 244)
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Typification and Multiplicity (page 244)
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The Character-System in Le Père Goriot (page 260)
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The Shrapnel of Le Père Goriot (page 288)
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AFTERWORD Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and the Prehistory of the Protagonist (page 319)
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Notes (page 337)
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Works Cited (page 375)
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Acknowledgments (page 383)
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Index (page 385)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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NCFS | 34.1/2 (Fall-Winter 2005-2006): 156-157 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23537740 |
VS | 47.2 (Winter 2005): 281-282 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3829858 |
CL | 58.1 (Winter 2006): 83-86 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4122346 |
MOD | 12.2 (Apr. 2005): 339-341 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v012/12.2hayot.html |
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Published: c2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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