The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters - David Galef - Livros - Pennsylvania State University Press - 9780271026350 - 15 de abril de 1993
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The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters

David Galef

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The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters

For every Hamlet, there is a supporting cast; for every Mrs. Dalloway, an entire realm of subordinate portraits. Yet if literary criticism cares at all about significant detail, emergent patterns, and the subtleties in narrative, flat and minor characters are crucial to an understanding of the fictional process itself.

Beginning with E. M. Forster's landmark study of flat and round characters, this book is both a critical and writerly examination of the species: Why are certain minor characters so salient in readers' minds, and why are flat characters often so comic? Is a name enough to create a character, and if so, what is the vanishing point of characterization? The walking allegory, the narrator, the disrupter, the doppelgänger?how are they used, and to what effect? The Supporting Cast first explores the theoretical limits of character, from structuralist taxonomies to reader-response concerns, with examples culled from a wide range of literature. The author then applies these concepts, in chapters of sustained analysis, to works of Conrad, Forster, and Woolf. The work also provides comments on flat and minor characters in other media and a full-scale character index of Woolf's Jacob's Room.


244 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 15 de abril de 1993
ISBN13 9780271026350
Editoras Pennsylvania State University Press
Páginas 244
Dimensões 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   567 g
Idioma English  

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