The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel /
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 narrati...
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Table of 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 pere Goriot and La comedie humaine
- Sophocles's Oedipus rex and the prehistory of the protagonist.
