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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"minor characters"”.
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Since Aristotle, we have categorized characters in terms of relative quantity and proportion. From Henry James's "center of consciousness," to E. M. Forster's theory of "round" and "flat," to Deidre Lynch's "pragmatics of character," to Alex Woloch's influential "one versus many," scaled …
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“Henrietta and Harriet:” Considering the Marginalized Best Friend in Burney’s <em>Cecilia</em> and Austen’s <em>Emma</em>
… different approaches to female agency and minor character space. To accomplish this task, I look at the narrative space given to minor characters in Burney’s <em>Cecilia</em> and Austen’s <em>Emma</em>. Specifically, I assess the roles of the minor characters Henrietta Belfield in …
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The Renaissance Reception of Terence: Grueninger's Editions of Terence, Strasbourg, 1496/1499
… lens in two respects. The central mediating characters are often very minor characters in the plays themselves, and Terentian ambiguity is systematically ignored. Things are magnified or suppressed to fit the overall schema. Gruninger's editions feature a compelling synergy of text and image. …
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Faith and failure in the gospel of Mark
The characters in Mark’s Gospel are animated and are of fundamental importance in his primary task of presenting the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Mk 1:1). Among his key characters are the disciples (including the Twelve) and an array of minor characters, many of whom are portrayed in …
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Religious and literary motifs in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy
… and harsh reality. McCarthy creates major and minor characters in The Border Trilogy that represent all of us and our quest for understanding certain truths about the role of the individual.
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"The New Millennium's Passion for Standing Live Witness to Things:” The Epidemiology of Isolation, Addiction and Redemption in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>
… Wallace’s greatest achievement. It portrays characters who are dramatically isolated from one another and who cannot cope without some form of addiction. This addiction manifests itself in the form of an extreme dependence on drugs and/or technology to escape reality. This thesis first …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… the conventional hierarchical arrangement of characters, according to which minor characters collectively shore up the centrality of the protagonist, and posit in its stead a more flattened system, one in which the old model of “protagonism” nearly disappears. This shift clears a space for a …
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"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs"
… Memoris, (both published in 1969), Johnson’s Minor Characters (1983), and Jones’ How I Became Hettie Jones (1990). These works spand decades and are, of course, unique to the author’s life, but ultimately tell similar tales. Compiled, these works form a textual community-exposing collective …
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Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae
… overarching messages regarding major and minor characters, identifies specific (and general) audiences, and examines the Encomium as a queenly project.
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Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer
… different interpretations of both major and minor characters in the opera, including Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. In Gloriana, Britten employed at least three specifically musical methods of challenging the meaning of the libretto: instrumental commentary, textural density, …
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"Character Types In Sir Philip Sidney's ""new Arcadia"" And In Italian Romance Epic"
Although the characters of The New Arcadia are typical for the romance epic, Sidney develops them in the manner of the moralist and anticipating the novelist, focusing not on action itself, but on the moral significance of the action and thus on the characters' inner lives. Consequently, the heroes …
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The Function of the Church in Warfare in the Book of Revelation
… plot. Chapter 3 analyses Revelation's characters. Like Chapter 2, it proves the significance of the warfare motif to the author's process of characterization. Although minor characters are given a brief discussion, more attention is given to the way in which the main characters …
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Make me yours: the psychodynamics of seduction through works of art
… gaze required of PhD studies – and other minor characters.
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
… images Dickens uses to depict the main characters and to interweave the plots which involve various strata of society.</p> <p>As far as is consonant with the analysis I shall point., up various images as contrasting with or reinforcing the basic image of orison. In so working I shall …
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A comparison of fifth-graders' oral and written stories
… to home and school, and the number of major characters was fairly consistent in both types of stories. Girls, however, used more minor characters than boys. These students preferred the written composing situation. All the students took some time to think about their stories before composing; …
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Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation
… unites the functional and structural role of characters with their human, individualistic portrayal. My major objective is to demonstrate the important connection between characterisation and structure in the sagas.By drawing attention to characters that I term narrative triggers, I offer a …