Download or read book In Praise of the Minor Character written by Grace Pregent and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minor characters are everywhere in novels. They linger with readers and invite us into the untold aspects of their lives. They fill a text's landscape, bringing depth to its ecosystem, and encourage us to shift our thoughts from textual centers to margins and even to consider the minor elements of our own experiences. Minor characters challenge us to hold oppositional perspectives, rethink interdependencies, and reimagine textual and lived relationships. In many ways, we identify with minor characters, and yet we lack a nuanced way of understanding them. This work is about minor characters and the qualities of "minorness" in Victorian novels. It offers casual readers and scholars alike a method of reading and rereading for minor characters that extends across genres.
Download or read book Lesser lights or Some of the minor characters of Scripture written by Francis Bourdillon and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minor Characters Have Their Day written by Jeremy Rosen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters. Rosen traces the recent surge in "minor-character elaboration" to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab's wife, Huck Finn's father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency. Eventually, large-scale publishers capitalized on the genre as a way to appeal to educated audiences aware of the prestige of the classics and to draw in identity-based niche markets. Rosen's conclusion ties the understudied evolution of minor-character elaboration to the theory of literary character.
Download or read book Minor Characters written by Joyce Johnson and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson's book is a personal memoir and a summation of the times, a story of adolescent rebellion and a desire to choose a different life. She shows how the Beat women, in deciding to break the rules and leave home as unmarried young women in the 1950s, discovered the risks and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.
Download or read book The One vs the Many written by Alex Woloch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The "character-space," as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation. Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.
Download or read book Minor Characters of the New Testament written by William Brock (Baptist Minister, the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Supporting Cast written by David Galef and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 doppelg&änger&—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.
Download or read book In the Company of Jesus written by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Malbon tracks the way in which the characters other than Jesus are portrayed in the Gospel of Mark, employing a literary approach that reveals their contributions to the Gospel story. After outlining the four elements of narrative criticism, Malbon explores each of the characters and shows how their interaction advances the narrative.
Download or read book Mark Method written by Janice Capel Anderson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful book introduces readers to five new and important methods of Gospel criticism and applies them to the interpretation of Mark. An introductory chapter outlines traditional methods of Gospel criticism and the history of the interpretation of Mark. Expertly written by recognized scholars, Mark and Method will be an aid for beginning students and a reliable guide to the rapidly changing array of texts and techniques in biblical studies:Narrative Criiticism: Elizabeth Struthers MalbonReader-response: Robert M. Fowler Deconstructive criticism: Stephen D. Moore Feminist criticism: Janice Capel Anderson Social-scientific criticism: David Rhoads
Download or read book Obscure Characters and Minor Lights of Scripture written by Frederick Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comedy in a Minor Key written by Hans Keilson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka. In 2008, when Keilson received Germany's prestigious Welt Literature Prize, the citation praised his work for exploring "the destructive impulse at work in the twentieth century, down to its deepest psychological and spiritual ramifications." Published to celebrate Keilson's hundredth birthday, Comedy ina Minor Key—and The Death of the Adversary, reissued in paperback—will introduce American readers to a forgotten classic author, a witness to World War II and a sophisticated storyteller whose books remain as fresh as when they first came to light.
Download or read book Character Complexity in the Book of Ruth written by Kristin Moen Saxegaard and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristen Moen Saxegaard demonstrates how character complexity generates theological themes in the Book of Ruth. Each character has its specific voice which raises a particular topic. The interaction between the characters elaborates multiple perspectives to these themes, which offer new approaches and alternative answers to the reading of Ruth.
Download or read book Yakshagana written by Martha Bush Ashton and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1976 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Culture, The Perennial Substratum Of The Sophisticated Metropolitan Culture, Takes Many Lively And Colourful Forms. This Is Particularly True In India. This Book Is A Study Of One Such Expression Of The Folk Culture Obtained In South Kanara, India. It Is Not One Of Those Dry Academic Studies Usually Made By Foreign Scholars. For The Authors, The Book Has Been A Passionate Involvement In A Traditional Art Form Yakshagana. The American Authors Have Put Down Their Experience With The Hope That The Reader Will Enjoy An Imaginary Trip To South Kanara, A Walk Through The Fields And A Thrilling Night Of Yakshagana. In A Lively Style, This Book Brings Home To The Readers Almost Everything About This Particular Form Of Dance-Drama, The Music, Dance Costumes And Make-Up And Impromptu Dialogue As Well As Its Literature On Which The Dramatic Themes Are Based, The Rituals Performed Before, During, And After The Drama, The Organization Of A Troupe, The Existing Troupes, And The Training Of The Performers. With Nineteen Four-Colour Reproductions, Twenty-Tree Black-And-White Illustrations And Eighteen Line Drawings, Yakshagana Has Something To Offer To Each Of Its Readers. For Those Trained In Music There Is The Style Of Singing And Rhythms Peculiar To Yakshagana. And Those Who Are Learned In Poetry, Religious Epics And Legends Can Revel In The Beauty Of The Poetry, And Those Who Have A Sense Of Colour And Design Can Be Enchanted By The Costumes And Make-Up. The Readers Will Vicariously Experience The Intricate Steps Of The Dance, Not To Be Seen In Any Other Indian Dance Forms, Yet They Are Characteristically Indian. Yakshagana, As Experienced By The Authors, Reveals The Deeper Meanings Of The Indian Epics And Legends Through The Extempore Dialogue Of The Performers. Their Descriptions Of The Risqué Humour Of The Buffoon And His Comic Movements Come Alive Before The Readers. Here Is A Point Of Departure For More Study In New Directions, Valuable To The Students Of Arts And Folk Culture, And Yet Tempting The General Readers With Its Rich Fare Of Aesthetic And Intellectual Experiences. Yakshagana Is Tempting To The Booklover In Many Other Ways: The Subject Of The Book Has Been Presented And Decorated By One Of The Famous Indian Artists K.K. Hebbar, And Introduced By C. Sivaramamurti, A Noted Historian And Archaeologist Whose Deep Knowledge In Inconography Has Made Rich Contributions To The Study And Understanding Of The Ancient And Medieval Visual Arts In This Country.
Download or read book Bible Biographies or sketches of some of the minor Scripture characters written by G. MACCULLOCH (of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yak ag na a Dance Drama of India written by Martha Bush Ashton and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the rustic dance drama (yakshagana) of Karnataka; a study.
Download or read book The Best loved Plays of Shakespeare written by Jennifer Mulherin and published by Cherrytree Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a plot synopsis, character sketches, and quotations from each of ten plays, plus a brief biography of William Shakespeare.
Download or read book Flavius Josephus Self Characterisation in First Century Rome written by Eelco Glas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish War describes the history of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-70 CE). This study deals with one of this work's most intriguing features: why and how Flavius Josephus, its author, describes his own actions in the context of this conflict in such detail. Glas traces the thematic and rhetorical aspects of autobiographical discourse in War and uses contextual evidence to situate Josephus’ self-characterisation in a Flavian Roman setting. In doing so, he sheds new light on this Jewish writer’s historiographical methods and his deep knowledge and creative use of Graeco-Roman culture.
