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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Main Author: Woloch, Alex, 1970- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2003
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505 0 |a 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. 
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