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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amanda Anderson; Rita Felski; Toril Moi |
ISBN: | 9780226658520 022665852X 9780226658667 022665866X |
OCLC Number: | 1145415023 |
Description: | 1 v. (170 p.) ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi -- Rethinking character / Toril Moi -- Identifying with characters / Rita Felski -- Thinking with character / Amanda Anderson. |
Series Title: | Trios. |
Responsibility: | Amanda Anderson ; Rita Felski ; Toril Moi. |
Abstract:
Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.
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